Long-Range Planning for Urban Research and Development, Technological Considerations

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Excerpt from Long-Range Planning for Urban Research and Development, Technological Considerations: A Report by the Committee on Urban Technology, Division of Engineering, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of EngineeringThis process of increasing urban expansion is a matter of deep concern. It suggests a continuation of many familiar ills - the ungracefulness of urban sprawl, time-consuming and hazardous travel, excessive cost of public ser vices and their requisite physical plants, economic decay in the inner city, slums, crime, and a befouled physical environment.The Challenge The growth of urban complexes does not, by itself, require continuation or extension of these characteristics. The challenge is to under stand the forces that determine the urban character and to guide them in achieving the ends desired by society.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.