TOWN-FLANNING

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 29, 4 February 1913, Page 8

TOWN-FLANNING

THE VISIT • TO.- NEW- -ZEALAND, ' - , . - M4j . . - . (From- Our Own Correspondent.) • LONDON^' 27th December. ( ',' AustralAsia'S " Need " for Towrrplanmng '•' is the subject of an article j by ,Mr. , C. C. Reade .in " this . month's "Garden Cities and , Town-planning." Mr. Reade is the organiser of the Australasian , town-planning tour, for . 1914, arid he thinks that v tlie decision of the' Garden " Cities '■ and > Town-planning , Association, toisend an -.expert emissary to New Zealand v and " Australia ' marks .a, great opportunity, while tlie proposed lectures will be little"' short of J a revela- , tion. « .. * -t' ' . ' \, "fhe tour comes at, a right time, , for, Australians' arid New' Zealanders nowadays are "keen 10' know definite and' precise details' about town-plarining.. The tour -will, provide, ih. concise form, illuminated by . up-to-date ' pictures and I plans, ' the clearest ' insight into townplanning which the ."experience and talent of. the Gardeh. 1 Cities t Association can offer. The proposal is one of supreme importance, for the need for , townolanning^s urgent and vital to the welfare' 'of • growing oversea" "cities. If the problem of slums ahd overcrowding are to ,be successfully'- fought, . a to\ynplanning campaign along the lines' projected by the Garden Cities Association must come sooner or later. , Mr. Reade refers to • the - question • of divided t authority— the • existence of numerous local bodies. whicH hampers' the solution' of ' great* civic problems. Auckland is quoted as having sixteen.- < • "It is •somewhat remarkable," says Mr. Reade,"* t ".that' whilst the central area's' 6f most' Australian and New Zealand cities were consciously planned and laid out on a scale far superior to many older English cities,' v 'their "suburbs, have been -a^nd are still 9 permitted ' t'o l grow for the' greater, part in v haphazard fashion. If .the, present opportunity is neglected, then .'steadily rising" immigration an'd'fast-' • expanding cities will add enormously to the burden and difficulties of the im'.mediate future... ' .' , .' „* i < A plan showing the suburban growthJof Auckland is published as 'an example of " the r- necessity - for .a ■ Town-plahmng" 'Act. _, , , -.- . . • ■» ,'->