TOWN PLANNING.
CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK. LECTURE BY NEW ZEALANDER, NEW YORK, April 21. An international regional and city planning conference, under the supervision of the American Institute of Architects, opened to-day, seventy-five foreign delegates attending, including Mr S. Hurst Seager, representative of the New Zealand Government, who lectured on the city planning developments in tin Dominion, which, he said, were based largely on the scheme of garden cities developed by Mr Ebenezer Howard in England.
Mr Raymond Unwin, a member of the British Ministry of Health, in addressing' the conference, stressed the necessity of the dispersal of information so that cities could each have distinctive plans, rather than that all cities should adopt similar plans. Various other speakers stressed the necessity of regional planning as a prevention against bad conditions, which later have to he corrected at great cost. Sir Edward Luylens, the British architect, received the American Institute of Architects’ gold medal. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 120, 23 April 1925, Page 12
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158TOWN PLANNING. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 120, 23 April 1925, Page 12
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