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Says Planner Sert: "In its academic and traditional sense, city planning has become obsolete. In its place must be substituted urban biology...
Functional city planning-based on a city's dwelling, industrial, traffic and social needs-is an old idea, but Author Sert illuminates it by exploding some recent popular fallacies about...
Decentralization is "a beautifully romantic 'back to nature' idea!" But Sert points to the ghost towns of the Depression as examples of what might happen to great cities if they became "the victims of a complete and unplanned decentralization...
...Sert and his colleagues do not propose to leave the city to its apparently inevitable fate. Instead of dispersing the city or making it smaller, they would quicken its blood stream by means of express highways; give it air to breathe by surrounding each business and industrial district with a green belt; make it self-contained by providing facilities for recreation and fuller living within the city itself...
...their plan is more intelligent use of a city's third dimension-height. The Sert group propose to house the city's people in skyscrapers, surrounded by wide open spaces, and by doing so to provide a single solution for a modern city's two greatest dangers, congestion and bombing...