Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1917 — HOME TOWN HELPS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOME TOWN HELPS

BUILDING ON DEFINITE PLAN t Country Hat Been Quick to Recognize Advantages of Having EXpert ' Lay Out City. Town planning has. received so much attention within the, last ten years that it is developing into a new profession and 'one that'promises to be most remunerative. The obvious advantage of a brand new city, built up from the ground on a plan in harmony with ~ modern developments, over the city which was evolved from a small village in which sanitation, convenience and civic beauty were.- untbought of, has been recognized by a number of corporations in the selection of sites for manufacturing plants. The need of persons competent to plan new cities as well as to remodel old ones led the University pt Pennsylvania to establish a course of city planning. It has been under the direction of B; Antrim Haldeman, city engineer of Philadelphia ; Carol Aronovkd ancFßernard Newman.of the kjjlladelphia housing commission and Prof. James P. Lichtenberger of the university. A number of cities are now establishing commissions for the purpose of procuring a definite plan suited to Individual municipal need. New York recently established such a commission and the group of public buildings which are adding so materially to the efficiency and beauty of Cleveland were built from plans which recognized the peculiar and distinctive conditions of that city. Dallas and Galveston, Tex., Birmingham, Ala., and Reading, Pa., are among other cities which have recently adopted a definite plan upon which future improvements will be based.