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NEW IDEALS IN THE PLANNING OF Harvard University will he useful alike to the municipal official, the business administrator, the engineer, the expert in sanitation, the architect, the landscape architect, and the city planner.

It is not possible in a relatively brief handbook to give anything; pretending to be a complete presentation of city planning. The attempt is here made, however, to give a comprehensive presentation of the main ideas and to retain a proper scale and emphasis in the treatment of the subject by a careful apportionment of the space allotted to each part of the subject.

The principal topics included are the following: the city planning movement; the local survey as a basis for city planning; the essential elements of city plans, including streets and roads, street railways, steam railroads, commercial waterways and water fronts, the subdivision of the land and real estate development, the division of a city into zones or districts, parks, playgrounds, and other public open spaces, public and semi-public structures and city planning aspects of housing; types of city plans; legislation and organization; the financing of city planning projects; professional training for city planning work; new towns and new standards, and the promise of the future.

Throughout the handbook there will be brief references to books and other publications dealing with special topics.