Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 Municipal Engineering Sessions Held Under the Auspices of American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Ins

Excerpt from Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915: Municipal Engineering Sessions Held Under the Auspices of American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Institute of Electrical Engineers

Notwithstanding all that has been said and written upon this subject, there seems to be more or less uncertainty as to just what City or Town Planning means. Some appear to con sider it the designing of spectacular effects in the grouping of public buildings and the establishment of civic centers, the creation of imposing open spaces, the cutting through of broad avenues or the straightening and widening of existing streets, the reorganization and rearrangement of transit facilities and terminals; in short, the rebuilding or making over of cities and towns. These might more properly be called the correction of mistakes or the remedying of defects due to a lack of proper planning rather than the more fundamental work of city plan ning which should have as its chief object the avoidance of the necessity of costly reconstruction. What then is City Plan ning? Many definitions have been written, some long and some short; some emphasizing the architectural and artistic side and others laying chief stress upon its social aspects, but few of them appear to recognize it as an engineering problem.

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