Excerpt from Planning Problems of Town, City and Region: Presented at the Twenty-Fourth National Conference on City Planning, Held at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 14 to 16, 1932 The average' American city is about the most wasteful of all the creations of man. Increased debt and ever mounting taxes are manifestations of deep-seated economic ills. Unsatisfactory living conditions from which so'much of our population has attempted to escape are plain evidence of unsound social standards. 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.