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Systems Planning -^-differ: Highway Systems planning -^-Differ and Planning.-^-Differ countries have different Systems planning -^-Differ of highway cl sification, some based on the kind of usage volved, others on the nature of the administrat control. In the United States both Systems planning -^-Differ ; in use. Every country has or plans a system main highways connecting the principal regi< and centers of population. Such Systems planning -^-Differ ; sometimes built and maintained by the natio government and sometimes are the joint respor bility of the national government and the sta or provinces.
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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