Download or read book Proceedings of the National Conference on City Planning, 1913 (Classic Reprint) written by National Conference on City Planning and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Proceedings of the National Conference on City Planning, 1913 The Executive Committee has placed upon me the duty of submitting to this Conference an outline of a city planning program, intended, with such amendments as shall be brought forth by discussion, to serve as a practical guide for local efforts in advancement of the city planning movement. Various features, forming parts of such a general program, will be taken up in detail at later sessions. I begin by assuming on the part of this Conference a general understanding of what city planning is, and a general acceptance of the desirability of having a city plan, and will take up at once the question of the method of going about it. There are three logical divisions of any city planning movement: first, the winning of public support; second, the planning itself; and, third, the translation of plans into facts. In every locality it is wise, and in a real democracy it is necessary, to begin by winning public support before making considerable public expenditures either in preparing plans or in executing them. And for that reason there is, perhaps, more pressing need for agreement as to the best methods of developing a wise and effective public opinion in regard to city planning than as to the steps which are made possible only by such public support. 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.