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American City Planning is a paradoxical enterprise
How can planners impose controls that protect the public in a capitalist society based on expansion, property rights and free enterprise?
Planners are charged with......
Protecting public health, safety, and welfare
Lewis Mumford at the 1927 National Planning Conference urged planners to
utilize an organic or ecological approach in their profession.
Lewis Mumford warns
unless cities are designed in accordance with natural constraints, urban centers would pass "the limits of functional size and use"
Lewis Mumford's City cycle
1. Initial periods of excessive growth
2. Ecological Deterioration
3. Catastrophe
4. Demise of Civilization (Necropolis) (dead city)
John Nolen
"Organic City" concept.
William Straub editor of St. Petersburg Times
convinced city commission to create advisory city planning board.