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Proper Planning: Electrical wiring. One of the most important features for the proper planning Lighting of every room is to have an abundance of supply sockets or baseboard plugs. These are inexpensive to install, add greatly to the flexibility of the Lighting layout, permit a greater use of portable lights, and facilitate subsequent changes in the Lighting arrangements. In planning for new Lighting it.is advisable and economical to confer with a Lighting specialist during the blue-print stage. The average electrician is not a Lighting expert. If a specialist is not available, a good general rule to follow, in the location of outlets, is that no point along a Wall should be over 6 feet from a wall- or base-plug, and there should be one or more double base-plugs on each side of a room. Each room is always a special problem by itself, and common sense, as well as theory, must guide in the planning of its illumination. Furniture arrangement should be considered, but as furniture is likely to be moved about, an ample supply of electrical current should be planned for in all locations. proper planning Lighting is not only a matter of quantity of light, but its proper planning distribution, as well. All outlets if possible should contain double plugs, and one side of each plug should be controlled by a switch placed at the entrance of the room to control the general illumination; the other side should be left for the lights needed for special purposes.
The real task of the planning board therefore should be—and is, in those communities where planning is taken seriously—to serve as a research arm to the executive. "Pure" planning, planning according to theory, is a practical impossibility, for every executive decision is weighted by many factors of politics, expediency, finance, and local pressure. A conscientious executive and legislative body, nevertheless, can be assisted greatly in making decisions, if presented with the full implications, city-wide, of the alternatives.
Until such hypotheses i been formulated and tested, there is no basis i which the planner can decide whether the prc of decentralization should be accepted as i: itable or whether redevelopment, as the ten currently used, does or does not make sense, is probable that this absence of social data, as lated to physical planning, is the reason for lack of a sound philosophical approach to planning as a whole and accounts for the fai of planning, at this time, to be much more tha series of expedients. |
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