Excerpt from American Planning and Civic Annual, 1955 State Parks were considered at the Washington Conference on Parks and Open Spaces in May and at the Vermont National Conference on State Parks in September 1955. The Roll Call of the States takes up the story from where the 1954 american planning and CIVIC annual left off, and the story will be continued in the 1956 annual to be issued early in 1957. Articles on state parks in relation to safety, design and facilities are presented. Standards for selection of state parks are outlined by V. W. Flickinger. State control of roadside vegetation is outlined by David Levin of the Public Roads Bureau, and the im portance Of the new Federal Highway Systems is presented by Burton W. Marsh of the American Automobile Association. In addition to the papers presented by the distinguished Speakers at the Conference on Parks and Open Spaces, we circularized the urban planning agencies to ascertain, if we could, how many city planning commissions had what they considered an adequate comprehensive plan for parks, either for the city or the metropolitan region. Not all Of the cities to which we wrote gave us the information; but it is Significant that not one city could claim that its park plans were adequate for the future needs. As we have secured information concerning areas all over the United States, we are convinced that one of the most important steps in making urban regions into good living environments is for planning commissions to study their parks and open spaces and make plans for securing essential areas before our growing populations have already caused congestion beyond hope of actual acquisition of areas acknowledged to be needed. It is our hope that those who read the articles presented in this annual will study their home neighborhoods and give support to their planning agencies when they make comprehensive plans for parks and open spaces. There is need for state, regional and city action in this field. 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.