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Cities or Villages ? Mr Frank Lloyd Wriglit, eminent American architect, predicts that the coming age will be one of villages, not of cities. Yet at the same time the force of habit perpetuates the now universal tendency of industry, and hence of population, to gravitate towards the city, comments the Spectator. In Britain this tendency has taken an extreme form in the persistence with which in recent years industry has moved to the south, and especially London, creating new and unmanageable problems of organisation and administration, and the frenzied effort every week-end to provide for thousands of men and women the light, air, space, quiet which arc not available in their homes. There is no need here to emphasise the problems and difficulties created; they are obvious to every inhabitant of London or any other great city. The effects are plain and deplorable. The Government, however, has stood aside and impotently watched the growth of a tendency which it will not or cannot reverse: and responsibility has for the meantime been diverted to a Royal Com--1 mission which has not yet succeeded in presenting a report.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20845, 1 July 1939, Page 6
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