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TOWN PLANNING.
I would premise by saying that the value of
intentional and intelligent town planning as distinguished
from accidental agglomeration of separately
designed centres of development having no common
aim or unity of civic purpose is nowhere more
definitely illustrated than in the growth of Willesden.
A glance at the map which shows the existing
distribution of houses makes it clear that the causes
which have determined the lines of development
within the area emerge only by accident in a somewhat
heterogeneous town from which unity of design
is conspicuously absent.
A suburban district, topographically, but not
administratively within the London area, housing a
large population to whom easy access to the metropolis
is in great part a vital necessity, Willesden has
developed naturally along the lines of freest communication
with London.
Around the stations of the London and North
Western, the North London and Metropolitan Railways
and along the main roads running into London