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Excerpt from Airports: Their Location, Administration and Legal Basis The increased recognition of civic responsibility for guiding and rationalizing urban and regional growth brought about the establishment in 1929 by Harvard University of the Graduate School of City Planning, with research as a principal function. The facts and conclusions developed in a series of special studies, each conducted by a leading expert, are to be published as The Harvard City Planning Studies, of which two or three volumes will appear each year. The University hopes to render substantial service to the communities of this country by thus laying before the public and those concerned in civic development - city officials, engineers, architects, landscape architects, planning consultants, realtors, lawyers, members of chambers of commerce - freshly gathered and carefully analyzed information, compressed into monographs appearing shortly after each investigation is brought to a conclusion. While research alone can never solve the complicated problems of civic growth, it can contribute constructively if the facts selected are vital and representative, and presented in a form facilitating actual application in the promotion of wholesome trends of community life. The vast range of problems in this country to-day which research should assist in crystallizing has been suggested in Our Cities To-day And To-morrow, by Hubbard and Hubbard, published in 1929 by the Harvard University Press: indeed this book may be regarded as the precursor of and introduction to the present series of studies. Of the monographs for 1930, Volume I, Airports, is devoted to an urgent and much discussed field of municipal activity. Volume II, Building Height, Bulk, and Form: How Zoning Can be Used as a Protection Against Uneconomic Types of Buildings, will be slightly delayed by the untimely death of its author, George B.Ford, during his final revision of the complete manuscript. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.