Excerpt from American Planning and Civic Annual: A Record of Recent Civic Advance in the Fields of Planning, Parks, Housing, Neighborhood Improvement and Conservation of National Resources, Including the Addresses Delivered at the Citizens Conference on Planning, Held on the Fortieth Anniversary of The Louis in 1904, the American Civic Association was organized as a merger of the American Park and Outdoor Art Society, which had been created in Louisville, Kentucky in 1897, and the American League for Civic Improvement, which had started in Springfield, Ohio in 1901. I may add that the American Civic Association continued from 1904 until 1935 under that name, but that it then merged with the National Conference on City Planning to form the American Planning and Civic Association of today. 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.