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The author takes this occasion to express his gratitude to the officials and specialists who have so often in the past given him information and the benefit of their opinions in city planning and allied subjects. He wishes especially to thank Thomas Adams, Esq., former President of the Town Planning Institute of Great Britain, Secretary and Manager of the Letchworth Garden City, and Town Planning Inspector to the Local Government Board of England and Wales, and at present Housing and Town Planning Adviser to the Commission of Conservation of Canada; Albert S. Bard, Esq., of the New York Bar, who acted as secretary of the Mayor's Bill Board Advertising Commission, and has been for so many years a Director and twice the President of the Municipal Art Society of New York; Major George B. Ford, again in New York, after his work for the Red Cross and the Renaissance des Cités in reconstructed France; Dr. H. Lindemann, editor of the Kommunales Jahrbuch and Director of the Institute for Social Research at Cologne; Hendrick W. van Loon, Esq., the historian in severe print and gayer but no less instructive pictures; Dr. John Nolen, the planner of many cities; Frederick Law Olmsted, Esq., many times President of the National Conference on City Planning and the American City Planning Institute, and at this time President of the American Society of Landscape Architects; Lawson Purdy, Esq., for many years the President of the Board of Tax Commissioners of the City of New York; M. Georges Risler, founder of the Sociéte des Habitations à Bon Marché and the Sociéte des Architects Urbanistes and President of the Musée Social, and Dr. Delos F. Wilcox, formerly Deputy Commissioner of Water, Gas and Electricity, New York City, for their kind criticisms of portions of this work; and especially Edward M. Bassett, Esq., eminent authority on the law of city planning and zoning,