Excerpt from American Planning and Civic Annual: A Record of Recent Civic Advance in the Fields of Planning, Parks, Housing, Neighborhood Improvement and Conservation of Natural Resources The citizens of any neighborhood, town or city find that they are bound to be affected by planning decisions made at local, regional, state and national levels. They learn that comprehensive and local planning are not two separate operations, but that they are inter related, and that plans at each level of government must be reconciled with each other and fitted into overall plans, if the best results are to be obtained. Each annual contains much factual information not easily ac cessible elsewhere; but attention is called to the reorganization of the Federal Executive Agencies which is being put into effect as a result of the task force studies under the Hoover Commission. A number of agencies described in this annual have been changed in name or moved into other departments. No attempt has been made to record the status as we go to press. By next year more changes will be recorded and they will be on a comprehensive scale. The American Planning and Civic Association and the National Conference on State Parks include many public officials in their memberships but they both place emphasis on citizen interest and invite all public-spirited citizens interested in sound land and resource uses to become members, receive the publications and thus be prepared to play an active and intelligent part in the judging of local, regional, state and national policies proposed for the solution of pending issues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.