Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1918 — REASON FOR CITY PLANNING [ARTICLE]

REASON FOR CITY PLANNING

Allow* for That Development Sure to Be the Lot of a Town That Has Live People. City planning Is the economy of notion today that Insures possession tomorrow. The average American city doubles every twenty-five years. This means that It quadruples every fifty years. The growth of Minneapolis Is more rapid. It doubles in somewhat less than seventeen years. It will, at its present rate of growth, reach a million and a quarter in a third of a century. Even this rate of growth may be excccdtnl. Transportation is the essence of city planning. Rapid, frequent and cheap means of communication between home and workshop, one workshop and another, and workshop and homes, are indispensable to community efficiency. The chief agency of transportation is the street system. Every other agency depends upon it, foot travel, vehicular travel, surface, subway and elevated service, the telephones and the telegraph, sewers and conduits —all are controlled, determined, dictated by the street system. City planning is the prevision of the imminent population and of its transportation needs.