Visions Of Eden, Introduction

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American City Planning is a paradoxical enterprise

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How can planners impose controls that protect the public in a capitalist society based on expansion, property rights and free enterprise?

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Planners are charged with......

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Protecting public health, safety, and welfare

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Lewis Mumford at the 1927 National Planning Conference urged planners to

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utilize an organic or ecological approach in their profession.

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Lewis Mumford warns

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unless cities are designed in accordance with natural constraints, urban centers would pass "the limits of functional size and use"

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Lewis Mumford's City cycle

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1. Initial periods of excessive growth
2. Ecological Deterioration
3. Catastrophe
4. Demise of Civilization (Necropolis) (dead city)

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John Nolen

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"Organic City" concept.

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William Straub editor of St. Petersburg Times

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convinced city commission to create advisory city planning board.