button) in terms of the other ten things that crop up around the city.
He is aware of them and of their general nature, but he needs assistance since his deficiency is in his own depth of perception in each of these indi- vidual areas. The obvious answer is, of course, co-operation and "team work." The connotation of eating humble- pie, which some would see as being a prerequisite to such co-operation should be dispelled at the outset if ap- preciation of the significance of "com- prehensive" is to be accepted and em- braced by all who seek to strive in the interest of the public.
The search for that utopian crea- ture who is the perfect and all-encom- passing planner must be given up. The "perfect", or as near as possible per- fect, approach to the area of planning should be created through an admix- ture of the many talents that we possess to varying degrees.
To make planning more acceptable and effective, the public must be fully informed. The interest, understanding and sympathy of the public in general, must be enlisted particularly that sec- tion of private enterprise the banks, insurance companies, industrialists and developers.
There must be proper co-opera- tion and co-ordi- nation between public and private enterprise; old- fashioned an- tagonisms be- tween authority and business are obstructive to all good develop-
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Full advantage should be taken of current local conditions and happenings to illustrate what can happen without proper planning.
An uninformed public always has many misgivings and misconceptions
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