The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1915-02-26

THE ECONOMICS
OF CITY PLANNING.
Thomas Adams. English Export, EN-.
phasixss Its Practical Phases.

II am very glad to hear that among
the objects Of the American Civic as
~sociatioD Is that of getting rid of the
impression that city planning has
mainly to do with the large cities Of
hundreds Of thousands Of inhabitants.
and, indeed, that It Is not solely con-
cerned with these cities, but that one
Of the main functions Of city planning
is to deal with the small. town and
even with the small village communi-
IT," 20 said Thomas Adams, the we'll
known English town planning expert.
now civic adviser to the commission
Of conservation of Canada. in opening
an address at the recent convention
Of the American Civic association ON
the subject. THE Economic Basis Of
City Planning,
Continuing, Mr.. Adams said: '"Town
planning does not deaf With the beau
LITIGATION of the town. but town plan
ming, l should rather like to put It, In
cludes the establishment Of the ex-
ternai features Of the town. both In re-
gard to its public buildings and In re-
gard to its transportation. But these
matters are only part Of what should
be properly regarded rs city planning.
And when we come to analyze the
fundamental things in city life we dnd
that really we ought not to begin with
the establishment or with the beauti.
full In the city, but that after the route
Of civil life the two things that matter
are the industrial and the residential.
as the factories and home life. You
want not only to look forward for the
next thirty. forty or City years in re-
gard to your park systems. but you
want to make sure that In the next
forty, fifty or sixty years every person
who builds a e home will be Sc
cured against disease which may be
created by anything that can be pre-
vented. You want to make r that
the conditions shall be healthy in re-
gard to housing as we'll as In regard
to the general civic aspect OF the city.
Mr.. Adams emphasized the necessity
of proper legislative steps to give mu'
inequalities power to carry. out town
planning schemes. He pointed out that
to have a successful application of re
strictive regulations there must be CO
operation between the owner and the
municipality. IF you leave the control
of your building development until the
buildings are up the owner is not going
TO submit to restrictions which will
take away his property. IL you go to
him twelve years before he will join
sou in the proper health regulation
which will help him properly to con-
troll and restrict the property so long as
you restrict everybody else in the dis
trict accordingly"
In closing Mr.. Adams said: some
body said that you In America have
no war, Have you not? You have got
war with potential degradation and
slum life just as we have In Europe.
and you have to eight it. You have
war with all these difficulties that
breed preventable disease. with those
difficulties that always confront US.
want t appeal to the American Civic
association to t~ up and doing. Not
only let 1t be said that this hemisphere
is u place where there are liberty and
freedom. politically speaking. but 1t IL
also a hemisphere Of homes"