feb 21, 1916 - Fredrick Law Olmstead Jr's book City Planning
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One of the first books in city planning field“City planning is the attempt to exert a well-considered controlon behalf of the people of a city over the development of theirphysical environment as a whole ... The ideal of a unified, intelligent, and purposeful control of the city’s entire developmentfollows obviously and logically from the conception of the cityas a social unit with its fate in its own hands.”
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feb 21, 1916
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~ 109 years ago