Planning for Distribution of Industries

Some interesting and instructive articles written by Mr. Graham Taylor, Jr., and published in The Survey under the title of Satellite Cities, cover in a very clear way the conditions which exist in the purely industrial communities which have grown up adjacent to but distinct from the large cities. These articles lay bare the mistakes and faults in street planning, real estate control, housing and social and political development in these communities. They touch on but do not discuss the industrial areas which lie inside of and are a part of the life of the city itself. Neither do they discuss what are purely large industrial communities such as the manufacturing towns of New Jersey and Massachusetts. Little could be added to this study of Satellite Cities made by Mr. Taylor. It is not the purpose of this paper, however, to treat of Satellite Cities. Our purpose is rather to discuss and determine the forces and tendencies which are at work within the city itself, and which control its industrial development and to try and find, if possible, some way of directing and adjusting these forces and tendencies in such a way that the whole city may develop in the best possible manner. To take an absolutely unoccupied stretch of country and lay out upon it an industrial area and fit to this industrial area the proper street system, the proper transportation lines and the proper laws of housing, is a matter of comparative physical ease. The real problems which arise in such a case depend for their solution on the ethical and moral sense of the individual or corporation responsible for the development, rather than upon the ingenuity of the architect or engineer who makes the design. Upon the individual or corporation lies the burden of carrying out the design; on him rests the control of the nature of the dwellings which shall be erected, of the political and social organization which shall be developed; his is the responsibility for the actual carrying out of the improvements suggested for transportation and for streets. He has an absolutely free hand in a virgin field in which to work and his falling short is due to his carelessness, to his lack of ethical sense, or to his greed

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