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THE implications of the revolution in the British system of land tenure which occurred on July 1, 1948, when the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, came into force, are even yet far from being generally appreciated, although the Act immediately affects millions of property owners. It represents, indeed, a great experiment in social control. Old individual liberties are put in trust for the common good; but few as yet understand the methods of community planning or the discipline which planning requires of them. Nor are the technical implications fully realized—the need for development planners of higher quality and better training, for a new tradition in which economics, sociology and geography are blended with the skill of the architect, the engineer and the surveyor into something at least approaching a science.
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National Parks in Britain. Nature 162, 631–633 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162631a0
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