TOWN-PLANNING.

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TOWN-PLANNING.

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NEW YORK. April 21

The International, Regional, and City Planning Conkrenw. under the supervision of the American Institute of Architects, was owned to day. Seventy-five foreign delegates attended, including Mr S. Hurst Senior, representative of the New Zealand Government, who lectured on city planning developments in the Dominion, which, he said., were based largely on the scheme of garden cities developed by Ebenezer Howard, in England. Mr Raymond Unwin. a member of the British Ministry of Health, addressing the conference, .stressed the necessity for the dispersal of information so that cities could each have dis<tinctive plans rather than that all cities should adout similar plans. Various other sneakers stressed the necessity of regional planning as a preventive against bad conditions, which later would have to be corrected, at great cost. Sir Edward Luyicns. the British architect, who planned the Queen's Doll House, received the American. Institute of Architects' gold medal.