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Intro; Preface; CONTENTS; I. Introduction: Town Planning and Regional Planning; II. The Present-Day Importance of Towns; III. The Town in Relation to its Region; IV. Notes on Metropolitan Areas and Decentralisation; V. New Towns; VI. A Town Planner's Approach to his Problem; VII. Town Planning and the Law; VIII. The Characteristics of Private Development; IX. Growth and Change in Towns; X. Internal Improvements; XI. The Question of Density; XII. Transport; XIII. Technical Aspects of Town Planning; XIV. The Planning Process; XV. Synthesis of an Overall Policy; XVI. Action on the Synthesis

"George Taylor's Town Planning for Australia was the first dedicated book on the subject of urban planning published in Australia. Journalistic and ideological in style, it sets out a robust vision for a specifically Australian approach to planning and development of towns in a young country. Taylor was a controversial figure, a political activist and publisher who brought the NSW Town Planning Association into existence and played a key role in publishing and promoting planning into the 1920s. His wife Florence Taylor was the first female qualified architect and trained engineer in Australia, and an important figure in the history of planning and publishing in Australia. "--

(Cont'd) Suburban development by C. Aronovici. City-planning legislation, by F. Shurtleff. Financing a city plan, by N.P. Lewis. River front embankments, by L.W. Miller. Town-planning library, by J. Nolen.--Book department.--Index. ; (Cont'd)--Special papers: Fire waste, by P. Evans. Rural housing, by E.S. Forbes. Record keeping as an aid to enforcement, by Kate H. Claghorn. A housing survey, by C. Aronovici. Housing and the real estate problem, by J.C. Nichols. Copartnership for housing in America, by A.C. Comey. Relation between the small house and the town plan, by C.F. Puff, Jr. Relation between transit and housing, by J.P. Fox. The interrelation of housing and city planning, by A.W. Crawford.--Town planning: The town-planning movement in America, by F.L. Olmsted. The street layout, by B.A. Haldeman. The sociology of a street layout, by C.M. Robinson. Subterranean street planning, by G.S. Webster. City planning and the problem of recreation, by J. Collier. Planning for distribution of industries, by E.H. Bennett. The water front and the city plan, by C. Tompkins. A city plan for waste disposal, by G.A. Soper. ; "The papers in this publication were collected and edited by Carol Aronovici." ; Introductory: Housing and the housing problem, by C. Aronovici. A brief history of the housing movement in America, by R.W. De Forest.--The new house: The relation of land values and town planning, by R Unwin. Cost factors in housing reform, by C. Aronovici. Taxation of real estate values and its effect on housing, by D.F. Wilcox. The religious value of proper housing, by W.B. Patterson. The workingman's home and its architectural problems, by F.A. Bourne. Can land be overloaded? By B.C. Marsh. Congestion and rents, by B.J. Newman. Housing reforms through legislation, by L. Veiller. Wherein direct housing legislation fails, by E.T. Hartman.--The old house: The old house as a social problem, by Mildred Chadsey. The problem of the old city house, by J. Ihlder. Some effects of housing regulation, by J.J. Murphy. ; Mode of access: Internet.