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at 5,000 people, but by the end of the next century the number increased 
to 16,953, due chiefly to the establishment of the framework knitting 
industry, and the beginning of the manufacture of boots and shoes. The 
latter half of the nineteenth century was a time when the greatest increase 
in population took place, and by 1921 the census statistics show that 
Leicester had a population of over 240,000. Other industries, in addition 
to the two chief occupations of hosiery and boot and shoe manufacture, are 
the making of machinery, manufacture of optical instruments, and printing. 
Thus, after remaining through many centuries a community of approximately 
4,000 people, the city developed from a small country town into one of the 
most densely populated centres of modern commerce of the north-east 
Midlands. 
Dr. P. W. Brran.—Preliminary survey of land utilisation in the City of 
Leicester (11.30). 
Mr. H. H. Peacu.—Regional planning and the Leicester district (12.15). 
The study of the cultural landscape and value to town and country 
planning. The necessity of study of planning, not only by experts but by 
the ordinary man, to save the country from disfigurement. Schultz 
Naumburg’s studies on cultural landscape referred to. 
Rapid development of land by economic circumstances and breaking up 
of old estates, where planned development used to be carried out, is having 
serious effect on landscape. Difficulties in planning by local authorities 
and distrust of same felt by many. New Town and Country Planning Bill 
and what can be done. Local problem of Charnwood Forest. Economic 
value of planning in development. Leicester rapidly developing town, 
clean, little planning, much ribbon development. 
Dreariness of new suburbs. Officials and destruction and disfigurement 
of trees. No control of elevations. C.P.R.E. and Advisory Panel system, 
a help towards suitable building. Local housing schemes compared. Parks 
and allotments. Need of walking ways. New Walk example. Advertise- 
ments and planning. Curse of enamel sign. Industry finding need and 
value of taste in design and lack of training in schools, a vital matter in 
planning. Engineer and expert often spoil good plans by bad taste. 
Leicester City Council and Art Advisory Committee. Need of more 
co-operation and neighbourliness in building and planning. 
AFTERNOON. 
Tour of the City of Leicester to study land utilisation and general 
position. 
Friday, September 8. 
Dr. Vaucuan Cornis.—The visualisation of landscape (10.0). 
_ The science of physiological optics, which has been long and successfully 
pursued, provides reliable information as to the extent of the surrounding 
‘sphere which it is possible for the eye to perceive ; the distance to which 
stereoscopic vision extends ; the perceptible contrasts of light and colour ; 
and, generally, as to that which it is possible for our eyes to recognise in the 
surrounding landscape—when we try. 
