This is shown by a comparison with six cities in Germany, selected at random, as compared with six cities in the United States, which had in 1880 approximately the same population. Cincinnati has grown 16.1 per cent., 27.7 per cent. and 42.8 per cent. respectively in the three decades, while Breslau's growth has been 22.8 per cent., 54.9 per cent. In the thirty years Buffalo has increased 173.4 per cent. The German cities have increased almost twice as rapidly as the American cities, and while all this increase is not due to city planning, a very considerable portion of it can be so ascribed. The arrangement of traffic canalization, location of factories, the easy movement of products the well nourished condition and the ambition of employees furnish a powerful impetus to industry.
City planning justifies itself at every point, an America is waking up to it in a wonderful way.
While the movement in its present recrudescence is recent, the art of city planning is one of the greatest antiquity. The remains of the earliest communal abodes of man, of however primitive a nature, show a certain definite arrangement. With the development of races, villages became towns and towns cities continually on a larger scale, and it is undoubtedly true that the higher the degree of civilization of a people, the greater will be the size of its cities. The civilization of the Romans was largely expressed in the city of Rome, and the glories of ancient peoples generally shown in their cities. L'Enfant, however, who planned the city of Washington, admittedly the most beautiful city in America and one of the most beautiful in the world, enjoyed the double good fortune of having the support of the founders of the republic and an unencumbered site upon which to build, while most city planners have had to reorganize existing cities.