PAPER 6

Planning the urban environment

MUCH can be said about the successes that those involved in planning the urban environment have experienced. The engineering profession is often too modest in pointing out its involvement with the achievements frequently yielded by its efforts, as it has sought to optimize the urban environment. The innate complexity of urban planning is probably responsible for the more or less standard and accepted approach of subjective criticism of negative results after the fact. Perhaps a future joint conference could concern itself with the examination of the successes and of the reasons why they succeeded.

This Paper discusses problems of transportation oriented to the problems of the profession as it seeks to deal with transportation planning as an element of planning the urban environment. They are inseparable.