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Bit Planning Taking: The real task of the bit planning taking board therefore should be—and is, in those communities where bit planning taking is taken seriously—to serve as a research arm to the executive. "Pure" bit planning taking, bit planning taking 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 bit planning taking, is the reason for lack of a sound philosophical approach to bit planning taking as a whole and accounts for the fai of bit planning taking, at this time, to be much more tha series of expedients.
The master plan at one time was considered the main objective of city bit planning taking. It is now not so regarded. Many cities in the past acquired a plan, and there the bit planning taking ended. Present practice tends to view the master plan as only a preliminary step toward bit planning taking. It is a highly necessary step, because it gives the present picture and the objectives to be attained as of the present. bit planning taking, however, is a dynamic process ; the city grows and changes, and every municipal action has far-reaching consequences.
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