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A BROADSHEET recently issued by Political and Economic Planning (PEP) reviews the report of the National Survey and National Planning Committee of the Town Planning Institute, the first really thorough and informed analysis of the reasons for the wasteful and undesirable development of the land which is still occurring all over England. Together with the Bressey report on the Highway Development of Greater London, it makes a major contribution to the national planning of the use of land, and as such has claims on the attention of all scientific workers who are concerned with the social problems of our technical civilization. Essentially the primary task is one of co-ordination-of fitting together the requirements of many different and often rival users of land, and where necessary choosing between them. Pointing out that there are national aspects of planning urgently requiring comprehensive study, decision and action, and that the existing planning system is quite inadequate to deal not merely with these national aspects but even effectively with the broader regional requirements, the report recommends the creation of a National Planning Commission.
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Surveys of Town Planning. Nature 142, 427 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142427a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142427a0