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THE widespread destruction of property in the Greater London area which has attended the air raids of recent weeks should have brought home to everyone both the need and the opportunity for reconstruction which have come. The appointment of Sir John Reith, who is being made a baron, to the new office of Minister of Works and Buildings and First Commissioner of Works, suggests that the Government recognizes officially the magnitude of the task which lies ahead. So long ago as November 1939 an admirable paper by W. Braxton Sinclair on A.R.P. in town planning before the Air Raid Protection Institute indicated some of the possibilities in this direction if realistic and rational planning receives the executive authority to ensure that the plans are given appropriate effect.
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Reconstruction and Town and Country Planning. Nature 146, 479–481 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146479a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146479a0