CHAPTER XVIII 

 CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING 



A NEW line of endeavor has appeared in the United 

 States in recent years, known usually as city planning, 

 but sometimes as city and regional planning. It has 

 been undertaken by landscape-designers, architects, 

 and engineers working individually or in conjunction. 

 "Zoning" is intimately connected with city planning, 

 but may be applied to cities that have already been 

 planned and built or built without planning. Nearly 

 all American cities have just grown by "additions." 

 These have usually been planned in surveyors' offices 

 without any consideration of the topography. A 

 ravine or a hill has been divided into lots as though 

 it were level ground. 



If it is worth while to plan a house, spending much 

 time in studying the arrangement of the rooms, the 

 location and size of windows and other details, and 

 the fitting of the house to its proposed site, or to 

 plan a school-house or a factory, it is certainly worth 



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