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...Because he is an artist rather than a theoretician, his town planning has. followed no rigid formula. Aside from his own students, who were able to watch his deft civic surgery at first hand, few contemporaries have fully understood his method of work. To explain that method, Planner Saarinen has been writing a monumental treatise called The City. Last week the manuscript of The City was completed...
Cities & Cells. To Planner Saarinen a city is an organism which grows and flourishes or sickens and withers like a plant, according to profound natural laws and the conditions of its environment. Healthiest and most perfectly formed cities, Saarinen believes, were those of the Middle Ages, when the relative simplicity of social life made it possible for architects to build them as complete units. The medieval town, like France's Carcassonne and Holland's Naarden (see cut), resembled the organic cell of animal and plant life, its spired cathedral forming a spiritual nucleus for its web of radiating...
Main problem of the modern city planner, according to Planner Saarinen's philosophy, is to restore to the modern city some of that ease, convenience and organic unity that it lost when the whims of Renaissance architecture and the chaotic growth of industrialism destroyed its cellular form. But the solution of that problem is complicated. The widening of streets, laying out of parks and recreation centers, construction of parkways are merely temporary reliefs. The modern city soon outgrows them, devouring its suburban areas in a chaotic and vicious cycle. Suburban speculation leads to increased land values, increased value...
...Planner Is Ready. Adolf Hitler tells the German Army, Air Force and Navy where to fight. Sometimes he tells them when to fight. But General Halder and his small, thoroughly professional group of aides tell them how to fight...
...affairs planned with the stealthy calculation of Indian raids, and executed with the bludgeon force of gang assassinations. For this kind of operation, well executed in the Gilbert and Marshall Islands and in the assault on Marcus Island only 1,200 miles from Tokyo, the U.S. public could thank Planner Nimitz...