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Rural Planning: The impact of TV is minimal compared with mt of radio. It is estimated that almost 90% of hilean homes have a radio, making this medium powerful disseminator of news, education, and ntertainment. Radio has been a boon to rural planning ducation, where it has been used successfully y the Institute of rural planning Education, a private rganization subsidized by the government. The institute aims to improve the generally inferior conditions of rural planning living. Using the facilities of a network of broadcasting stations, it beams to rural planning schools a program complementary to that prescribed by the ministry of education. The impact far transcends the school because it reaches the rural planning community as a whole.
URBAN BACKYARDS have much to offer and provide an exciting, if challenging, opportunity to produce many interesting and original garden designs. A little forward planning and careful thought can go a long way toward overcoming any immediate problems such as lack of direct sunlight, shadows cast from neighboring buildings, poor soil or pollution.
Generally speaking, you will find that city gardens are easier and cheaper to maintain than most rural planning gardens simply because they are usually smaller. Urban sites also tend to be more sheltered than rural planning ones and may even be frost-free so you can grow a wide range of tender plants without taking protective measures.
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. |
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