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certainly not a time when such practices should be encouraged.
A BRITISH planning expert made an unfortunate statement at one of the numerous conferences held hereabouts in recent years about how to save the countryside from urban sprawl. The gist of what he said was that in order to save the countryside, we must build up the cities—build them up both physically and esthetically, was - the way we understood his remarks, to make cities more desirable as places to live. Predictably, his remarks have been seized upon by developertypes as providing a rationale for building additional •‘cities,” for developing “new towns” or “service districts” out in the country. This would be nothing more than a more effective way of destroying the countryside, not saving it, and creating more commuters to boot.
So. let us truly save our beautiful, and agriculturally valuable, countryside—not subject it to erosion from unwise mountain or flood plain subdivisions, not pave it over for the convenience of commuters, not dot it with “new towns” and teeming "service districts” for the advantage of developers. Z
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