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- Foreword and acknowledgements - Executive summary - Spatial and land-use planning systems across the OECD - Australia - Austria - Belgium - Canada - Chile - Czech Republic - Denmark - Estonia - Finland - France - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Ireland - Israel - Italy - Japan - Korea - Mexico - Netherlands - New Zealand - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Slovak Republic - Slovenia - Spain - Sweden - Switzerland - Turkey - United Kingdom - United States - Bibliography

Excerpt from Land Planning in the United States for the City, State and Nation The present work of Miss James marks an advance over earlier works on city planning. Planning may be regarded as the heart of our agricultural as well as our urban land problems. Prudent utilization of all our natural resources is not possible unless planning extends to all the other forms of the utilization of land, and this means that our mineral resources, water resources and forests must be planned both for the present and for the future. In other words, conservation is a problem of planning. Practice in our own country is very generally broadening its scope so as to take in the utilization of various classes of land. City planning is now making way for regional planning, or, perhaps one should say, is becoming part and parcel of regional planning. It is quite evident that the regions surrounding an incorporated city are closely tied to it, even before they gradually become united to it legally. The metropolitan area must be planned out carefully if we are to have the kind of cities we desire, and the earlier the planning the larger the results accomplished with given expenditures. We see clearly on every hand the enormous loss involved in rectifying mistakes that could easily have been avoided with wise planning. But many yet do not see that agricultural prosperity, and consequently the prosperity of the country as a whole, depends upon the planned out utilization of agricultural land. Moreover, the utilization of agricultural land cannot be well planned unless agriculture is considered in its relations to utilization of land for forests, for recreational purposes, for urban uses and all other possible uses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.