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The industrialists, ret from Haussmann's Paris, from Vienna, Rome, felt the insufficiency of the gridiroi the cast-iron monument as an expression great and wealthy nation. In 1893 the 1i City in Chicago snowed the people of the L States what could be done. The "City Beau movement got under way. This -movement 1 well into the early years of the 20th century emphasis was on the outward aspect planning of ( the civic centers, boulevards, plazas, the groi of important structures, and the placemei monuments. Its inspiration varied from "grand plan" of the French influence to the tagy village of the English. It completely igr the economic aspect planning of planning and was una that there were social implications. Neverth it aroused the interest of great numbers of p< and so prepared the way for the more sei planning which was to come.

The real task of the planning board therefore should be—and is, in those communities where planning is taken seriously—to serve as a research arm to the executive. "Pure" planning, planning according to theory, is a practical impossibility, for every executive decision is weighted by many factors of politics, expediency, finance, and local pressure. A conscientious executive and legislative body, nevertheless, can be assisted greatly in making decisions, if presented with the full implications, city-wide, of the alternatives.

Until such hypotheses i been formulated and tested, there is no basis i which the planner can decide whether the prc of decentralization should be accepted as i: itable or whether redevelopment, as the ten currently used, does or does not make sense, is probable that this absence of social data, as lated to physical planning, is the reason for lack of a sound philosophical approach to planning as a whole and accounts for the fai of planning, at this time, to be much more tha series of expedients.