Excerpt from American Planning and Civic Annual: A Record of Recent Civic Advance, Including the Papers Read at the National Planning Conference, Detroit, Michigan, June 1, 2, 3, 1937, and Selected Papers From the Regional State Park Conferences Held at San Francisco, California, September 1, 2, 3, 1936 When we in the United States, about the turn of the century, first began to talk about city planning, we heard it mentioned timorously and apologetically. Businessmen, especially, were skeptical about these new-fangled proposals. The first proposals to correct the obvious mistakes of the past sometimes involved large expenditures but not very often did they promise a made-over city. They accepted far too much as inevitable. In the past forty years we have learned many lessons. We know now that we must learn something of the past history, the present position and the possible future trend before we can venture to propose suitable remedies. We know that we must have trained...