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...Williams, the donor of the prize, is a prominent lawyer and city planner. He is the author of the New York city planning law, and has recently taken part in the legal survey for the Plan of New York and its Environs sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation...
...city planning. His book "Town Planning in Theory and Practice" is a standard authority. He was one of the designers of Letchworth, the first Garden City, of Hampstead Garden Suburb, and is one of the leading exponents of the garden city principle. During the war he was Chief Town Planner to the Ministry of Munitions, which was responsible for the war housing developments. Since the war, he has been Chief Town Plan Inspector to the Ministry of Health, in charge of the great British housing program. He is also past president of the Town Planning Institute of Great Britain...
...work; at present the majority of men in this field have had no specific preparation, and on account of lack of background, have not had the vision to develop many new ideas. True, there are some who have had the mechanical training--builders of sanitary systems, waterworks architects, city planner--; and some who have had adequate medical training; but practically none who have had both. To offer a combined training is the purpose of the new school...
...Architecture and City Planning. Among others the committee includes Mr. M. P. Lewis, formerly Chief Engineer of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, New York City, and President of the American City Planning Institute; Mr. C. G. Fall '68, a retired lawyer of Boston; and Mr. Thomas Adams, city planner, and writer and lecturer on city planning. Mr. Adams is to give four lectures on rural and regional planning at the School on February 16, 23, and on March...
...accepted plans for the reconstruction of Rheims, the work of the American city planner, George B. Ford, are also on view. These have recently been on exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York at the annual exhibit of the Architectural League...