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CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES


be harmonized as far as possible. In most cases, this is not so difficult as it might seem. While the immediate interests of the three parties are not identical, they are not in the long run normally in conflict.

8. A plan for dividing land must consider not only immediate use, but also probable subsequent use, administration, and maintenance, and must, so far as possible, forecast and provide for it. This may be done in part by the plan itself, and in part bj- binding restrictions and conditions, providing for permanency, or it may anticipate a change or conversion into a different use.

Special mention should be made of the chapters on "The Subdivision of Land" and "Residential and Industrial Decentralization" in the volume on "City Planning" in National Municipal League Series; also to the following: the article by Andrew Wright Crawford on "The Interrelation of Housing and City Planning," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, January, 1914; "Progress and Poverty," by Henry George; "Principles of City Land Values," by Richard M. Hurd; Report of the Committee on City Planning Study to the National Conference on City Planning, Chicago, 1913; Proceedings of the National Conference on Housing, 191 1 to date; article by John Nolen on "The Factory and the Home," Proceedings of the National Housing Association, 1912; paper by Lawrence Veiller, in Proceedings of the National Conference on City Planning, 191 1; also "Housing Reform: A Handbook for Practical Use in American Cities," New York, 19 10, and "A Housing Programme," a National Housing Association Publication, June, 191 2, by the same author, and "City Residential Land Development—Studies in Planning," edited by Alfred B. Yeomans; "The Industrial Village," by John Nolen, National Housing Association, 1918.

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