Annual Report Of The Division Of Housing And Town Planning

Author : Massachusetts Dept of Public Planning
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ISBN 13 : 9781332242542
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Division of Housing and Town Planning written by Massachusetts Dept of Public Planning and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Division of Housing and Town Planning: For the Year Ending November 30, 1921 Town planning is one of the greatest issues in the United States to-day. It is no longer to be regarded as a fad, but is an important phase of municipal activity. It is an attempt to plan ahead, that the growth of the community may be orderly and may bring comfort and convenience to all citizens. The tendency of people to gather together in small areas has brought with it real problems. Health and order and civic welfare will not come of their own accord. They must be planned for wisely, and the problem of achieving them grows as the community grows. The civic problem of to-day is to provide for all citizens - not just a favored few - opportunity for normal living conditions, with sufficient light, air, sanitation and room for each individual, with provision also for recreation, education and esthetic development. This is the ultimate aim of town planning. The haphazard growth of cities has resulted in the necessity of replanning many areas, - a remedial method often attended by great opposition. This opposition must be overcome before much can be accomplished. Education is therefore a necessary part of town planning work. Town planning as a scientific study did not begin until the latter half of the nineteenth century, when Paris, under the leadership of Baron Haussman, became the pioneer city. The movement soon began to spread. Germany, England and the United States became interested, and soon books were being written and actual progress was made in the town planning field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.