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 oP BOOKt "The first Plan shows he City as it/s; gho follov/ng ones as locally improving; and the last as improved and extended. "But th/s is too bare and crude an indieation o[ any Esport and Plns; ad & fuller st&msnt is aseastory; and this the more sines the [pria] plans ss bu s pa reduefioa of th larg &nd fully eolorsd origiasls. "As the physician must make s diagnosis of the ltient's ease before prescribing treatment, so with the planner for the city. He looks closely into the city as it'is, and enquires into how it has grown, and suffered. And as the physician associates the patient with his own eure, so must the planner appeal to the citizen. Hence the Indore rel should go round and look st the City for himself; and with ts Plan for partial guide, he may cheek, and amplify, the diagnosis; and pertnips sooelerste the treatment. "As the preliminary Survey and Interpretation prooeeds, the 0ity and its Quarters, and how they have developed sad deteriorated, grow clear; and the making of Improvements, the planning of Extensions, will be seen as no more appli- eation of & standard remedy or arbitrary prescription. For our Improvements are primarily those of urgent 1ooal hyims, and of conservative surgery; and our Extensions must be on these lines of growth on which the City presses or which its surroundings best admit." . . . "Successful treatment must be general and eonstitutiomd for though every dZsesse has many outeomes to be .relieve, health is & Unity. Hence the main eonoept, always before the mind, is the Oity itself; the City Past, Present and Possible and thus as a vast and oomplex life, the tree of which we, and all our generation, are but a seasoh's leaves; yet which has to continue its growth, and to bud for niLIt seasoil.** Turning now to examine some of the Chapters, we find under the title "Indore' from its e&rly beginnings", matter of striking interest and importance to all students of his- tory and economics, who ought to know more than they generally do of the historical evolution of the cities, and of the phases through which they have passed, in response o the general political and economio changes affthtg the whole country. Professor (]des soon obtained convincing ev/denoe that the portion of the Oity known as Juni Indors /s indmsd