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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 



These are fitness, convenience, definiteness, study and skill 

 in adapting needs to conditions, forethought to meet future 

 demands of traffic, and so on. 



All this leads up to, and in fact in many respects is part 

 and parcel of the great subject of city planning in general, a 

 most complicated one, and in the case of great growing cities, 

 never ending, for it is most certainly true that no compre- 

 hensive plan can be made at any given time which will solve 



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for all time the problems of the great cities' growth. These 

 are constantly changing and must be as constantly modified. 

 Any right study of this great question, while it may solve 

 some particularly important immediate need, as for example 

 that of the right placing and design of a civic center and the 

 grouping of public buildings thereabout and may make pro- 

 vision for other peculiar needs, must be relatively tentative 

 and must by constant effort and study of proposed schemes 



