CIVIC PLANNING
Sir,—-Lest there be a certain amount of delayed action” among those who are interested in ordered planning and intend to read E. A. Plishke’s “Design and Living” (ably reviewed in “The Press” last Saturday), I would like to quote, one of its sentences: “ . . . opportunities that occur only once or twice in a century o* building, mistakes that cannot be corrected lor generations to come.” Surely this observation is most true and apt regarding our city’s planning. In the present time of building restriction we are actually in the middle of one of th.? “opportunities” quoted above. Now is the time for pushing ahead with schemes for street widening and forming a civic centre. Delay in forming such plans and putting them into operation may allow a revival of city building to get one move ahead: we may. then view with regret a “mistake that cannot be corrected for generations to come.”—Yours, etc., R. S. D. HARMAN. June 9, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25206, 10 June 1947, Page 3
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