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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23362, 30 November 1937, Page 10

What she called the "urban mind was condemned by Miss Cicely Hamilton the authoress, at the conference of the Garden City and Town Planning Association in London. She described the urban mind as the outlook of people who had always lived in cities and had not been brought in contact with the realities of Nature. Their minds were affected by being in contact only with what was man-made and they looked at things in an entirely superficial way. Miss Hamilton complained of the snobbery of townspeople, which led them to look down on count*y folk and to think less of a girl who could milk and make butter than one who worked in a lipstick factory. The more we get together " she went on "the stupider we are. 1 ' She believed they must have decentralisation ii life was to be made safer.