Author: American Civic Association

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781230435022

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... war housing Frederick Law Olmsted Fellow American Society of Landscape Architects Brookline, Mass. On the 9th of May, a year ago, the National Conference on City Planning at Kansas City adopted two resolutions and charged me as President with the duty of presenting them in Washington and following them. Whatever the influence of those resolutions upon the general course of events, they have at least profoundly affected the activities of your President during the past year and I trust you will pardon me if my address takes in part the form of a personal narrative of what befell me in pursuit of the duty you laid upon me. In brief the resolutions called the attention of the Washington authorities to the importance of utilizing the principles and methods of city planning, and the experience in such planning accessible through this organization, in dealing with two distinct classes of urgent war problems. One was that of creating communities for the training of soldiers and the other was that of creating or expanding industrial communities in connection with the production of war materials. It happened that Mr. Mauran, President of the American Institute of Architects and one of the speakers at our Kansas City meeting, was already in consultation with the Washington authorities in regard to an offer of architectural services from the members of that Institute and he promptly arranged for an interview with the chairman of the General Munitions Board, afterwards the War Industries Board, of the Council of National Defense. Accompanied by George B. Ford and E. P. Goodrich as a committee I presented the resolutions to the Board. We were received politely but without enthusiasm and referred to the Board's committee on Emergency Construction, of...