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Excerpt from American Civic Annual, Vol. 5: A Record of Recent Civic Advance, With a List of Who's Who in Civic Achievement Among the Members of the American Civic Association The Association was represented on the Committee on Planning and Zoning, organized some twelve years ago by the Department of Commerce. The Standard State Enabling Acts for Planning and Zoning, issued by the Committee, have been used by many States and municipalities. The Association was largely represented by many of its Officers and members in the President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership called in 1931 and resulting in the publication of eleven volumes which have been widely circulated. N ow that a National Planning Board has been set up by the Public Works Administration, the American Civic Association is in a position to render important service in promoting this broad conception of national planning. This explains why the section on National Planning in this year's annual is large while those papers relating to Municipal Planning occupy less space. In times of depression like the present, it is natural that the initiative should be taken by the Federal Government. However, if the articles on Federal activities are read aright, it will be seen that great local, county, and State activity has been stimulated by Federal action. The National Planning Board has deliberately encouraged State, regional, and local planning, not in order to dominate it, but in the hope of developing a wider concept and a better cooperation among local communities. 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.