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TOWN-PLANNING has: always had a fascination for the sociological amateur, and the creation of a model town is one, of the most pleasing and least harmful of Utopian dreams. Mr. Burns's Town Planning Act is well-intentioned; under the conditions this is enough, for in the evolution of a town the method of trial is inevitable, the problem solvitur ambulando. The one thing needful is the guiding idea, the working principle.
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CRAWLEY, A. Town-Planning . Nature 84, 498–499 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084498a0
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