What Hope of Good Urban Planning?

Despite the immense sums we have spent upon urban “renewal,” our cities have been falling apart with increasing speed. Never was there a greater need for urban planning enlightened by the moral imagination. Addressing recently the 48th annual conference of the American Institute of Planners, this commentator found that our city planners know the tremendous scale of their task. They need all the help they can find.

A young reader of this page, Mr. Fritz Kaeser, suggests most perceptively some of the things wrong with the American urban behemoth—and with which our urban planning has not yet begun to deal adequately. Here are some of his observations:

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Despite the immense sums we have spent upon urban “renewal,” our cities have been falling apart with increasing speed. Never was there a greater need for urban planning enlightened by the moral imagination. Addressing recently the 48th annual conference of the American Institute of Planners, this commentator found that our city planners know the tremendous scale of their task. They need all the help they can find.

A young reader of this page, Mr. Fritz Kaeser, suggests most perceptively some of the things wrong with the American urban behemoth—and with which our urban planning has not yet begun to deal adequately. Here are some of his observations: