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Excerpt from Notes for a Study in City Planning in Champaign-Urbana In addition, the four regular students in the class of 1913 were each required to write a brief introduction to the reports; but as it would have been tiresome to repeat these, they have been thrown into a single chapter. This has been done by taking complete paragraphs from each and using nothing which was not written by the students. The introduction as given may be fairly considered, therefore, as a composite, representative of the united Views of the Civic Design stu dents in the class of 1913, and hence properly signed by them all. In the case of subsequent chapters which are signed by more than one student, the students themselves combined their independent theses. It is obvious that to make an authoritative city plan for Champaign and Urbana was not the prime purpose of this study of the Twin Cities. But because it is realized that in the press of busy lives, and the in sistency of personal interests, few persons have had opportunity for dispassionate and comprehensive study of the local civic problem, the theses have been brought together in the belief that they will prove at least interesting, and perhaps instructive and suggestive. If they contain, further, recommendations which commend themselves as directly valuable and helpful, the classes will be glad that they were able to do in this way a public service for the cities which house their alma mater and to which, thru all their lives, they will look back with affectionate tenderness. 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.