Taking Stock of Techniques for Shaping Urban Growth

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With tremendous growth in urban areas anticipated for the future, the planning profession needs to take stock of the techniques available today to guide this growth. The range of techniques is fairly impressive, but their use to date has been somewhat hit or miss. A “guidance systems” approach is suggested as a means of relating and using these techniques in a more effective manner. Under this approach the general plan serves as the organizing element, backed by an urban development policies instrument, an area-wide public works program, an urban development code, and a metropolitan area program of civic education as integral and related subsystems.

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