AbstractsSociology

The contribution of human ecology to physical planning.

by Delphine Mary. Dickson




Institution: McGill University
Department: Department of Sociology.
Degree: MA.
Year: 1951
Keywords: Sociology.
Record ID: 1541884
Full text PDF: http://digitool.library.mcgill.ca/thesisfile118862.pdf


Abstract

Planning is necessarily suspect in a country which prides itself on a tradition of liberalism and rugged individualism, and the charge of impracticabality lies ready to hand for the eager detractor. It is the more regrettable that this should be so since many of the exponents of planning have been particularly careful to emphasize that pious sentiments, even when allied with superb aesthetic sense, will not provide a satiafactory plan. [...]