American Planning and Civic Annual, 1952

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Excerpt from American Planning and Civic Annual, 1952: A Record of Recent Civic Advance in the Fields of Planning, Parks, Housing, Neighborhood Improvement and Conservation of Natural Resources While the principle of multiple-use may develop projects which serve several concurrent purposes, we find that some reconciliations must be made in multi - purpose projects. Certainly ¿ood control would point to maintaining space in reservoirs in which to catch the ¿ood waters. But power and reclamation needs would require fairly full reservoirs to provide water for irrigation and power. The most serious con¿ict, however, comes when power, reclamation and ¿ood-control projects are proposed to be located in national parks, monuments, wilderness and wildlife areas, for these areas have been set aside by Congress and Executive Order to exclude these very uses. In proportion to the total area of the United States, these reservations constitute a fraction of the whole, so that there is ample opportunity for development of water supplies, power, reclamation and ¿ood con trol, outside Of the areas which are being protected from such uses. 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.