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Definition of City Planning.—City or town planning is the guidance of the physical development of communities in the attainment of unity in their construction. Wherever in any locality a sufficient concentration of population has occurred to create complexity, here will be found a network of interests, each seeking its expression in the physical life of that locality; and it is the task of city planning, either by prevention or by cure, to bring these interests into harmony, in the unity of that locality.