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Thought Planning: 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.
URBAN PLANNING is probably as ol urban civilization itself. Once man begar build permanent settlements, he encountered p lems that required thought planning about the future of the land and safeguards for those uses.
HISTORY OF URBAN PLANNING Common and unimpeded access to the w supply was in all likelihood the first and r imperative need in the earliest urban plann The well was not the property of any one rr it belonged to the community, and paths and re leading to the well also became common prope On the other hand, certain plots of land bee the property of individuals, and their rights the land required description and definition, conciliation of the two uses—public and vate—was the primitive basis of city plann:
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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