Excerpt from American Planning and Civic Annual, 1947: A Record of Recent Civic Advance in the Fields of Planning, Parks, Housing, Neighborhood Improvement and Conservation of Natural Resources In the autumn Of 1947 we can record that many of the larger cities are revising their comprehensive plans and zoning maps, that a reason able number of smaller cities are setting up planning commissions, and that at long last, under some of the State Urban Redevelopment Acts, cities are actually selecting slum areas for study and report. A few are approaching the purchase stage. 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.