Excerpt from Planning Problems of Town, City and Region: Papers and Discussions at the Twenty-Second National Conference on City Planning; Held at Denver, Colorado, June 23 to 26, 1930 Most of us despise definitions. We know what a word means and we do not like to be bothered by making or remembering a definition that will exclude everything else. For instance, it is bothersome to define the word horse. It is not easy to define, and we are not much ahead after we define it. But, fortunately, each has a distinct conception of what a horse is. Similarly, it is bothersome to define city planning, but unlike the word horse, not so many of us have a clear conception of what city planning is. I will enumerate items that I have heard included as parts of the science, - architecture of private homes, private golf courses, surfacing of roadways, vehicular traffic regulations, taxation, assessments for benefit, excess condemnation, building codes and tree planting. All these things interest the city planner. He must know about them, - the more the better. But if they are part of city planning, one must make a definition of city plan ning that will include them all. This would be tantamount to saying that city planning is everything that pertains to a city, but such a definition is meaningless. 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.