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Summary.—City planning today, then, is like the city planning of the past. It is concerr with broad objectives in many fields, not just w the physical aspects. Indeed the pendulum m have swung too far, for the present-day compli neglect of the aesthetic side of city planning m prove harmful in the future. Civic pride is important factor in the psychology of any coi munity, and civic pride is evidenced in the thn dimensional quality of the physical city.

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.

The physical fact and the legal status gi together. The increasing complexity of permanent : tlements makes it probable that certain decision that is, planning—must have been made in ev city that has ever existed. The extent to wh planning was carried varied, and no doubt depended largely on the degree of organizat in the civilization that produced it. Cert ancient cities show a very high order planning, while others exhibit only rudimentary street patterns.