AMERICAN ARCHITECTS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 93, 22 April 1925, Page 5

AMERICAN ARCHITECTS

■ DISCUSS PLANNING OF CITIES. (UNITED PRESS AS3OCIATION-COPVRIQHT > ; (AUSTIULIAJMTCW. ZEALAND CAIILE ASSOCIATION) _ _ NEW YORK, 21st April. The International Regional and City Ilanning Conference, under the super vision of the American Institute of Architects, opened to-dr.y. Seventy, five foreign delegates, including Mr J Hurst Seageiy representative of the New Zealand Government, are me sent. : l Mr. Seago.v lectured on. city planning developments in the Dominion, which ho said were based largely. „n the scheme of garden, cities .developed by JiLienezer Howard in England Mr Raymond Unwin, a member of the. British Ministry, of Health, ,d-I dressing the conference, stressed the necessity for the dispersal of information, so that cities could each have distinctive plans, rather than that all cities should adopt similar plans. Various other speakers stressed the necessity of rcgiomil planning, as n preventive of Lad conditions', which later have (o be corrected at great cost. Sir Kdward Luylcns, the .Hrifisli iirchitcct, rtctived the American Instituto of Architects' fold uicdul.