The growth of cities in relation to town planning / by A.K. Chalmers.

  • Chalmers, A. K. (Archibald Kerr), 1856-1942.
Date:
[1908]
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Credit: The growth of cities in relation to town planning / by A.K. Chalmers. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    its own area—that is, witliiii the area of another local antliority—for the purpose of erecting houses thereon under Part III. of the principal Act. The illustration is scarcely a parallel one, however, for the pnrchasing authority in the one case acquired no administrative function in the land whereon the housing scheme is to l)e carried out; hut it implies a frank ad- mission that the problem of housing tOAvn populations may not, and in the given case cannot, be efficiently dealt Avith Avithin the area of the authority primarily interested. It is at this point—namely, the recognition by the Legislature that the requirements of life in toAvns, and indeed AAdierever masses of population are Avrestling Avith the prol)lem of a collective existence, extend be3mii(l the limits of existing administrative boundaries— that AA^e maj^ take up the aspect of the question that 1 have mo]-e particularly in A'iew. Past Experienoe.—We shall probably best get into touch Avith this aspect of the question by some short reference to the original con- ditions out of AAdiicli the motlern problem of housing arose. During the past seventy ^'^earsorso—indeed,^ e\er since the industrial dislocation AAdiich followed the Avars of Napoleon, and the unequal, if not indifferent, administration of tire laws for the relief of the poor led to the appoint- >uent of the first Poor Waw (Jommi.ssion—the