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adapted as the perverted intention of their occupancy
is calculated to ensure. Everywhere there is a lack
of persistent and pervading purpose in the planning
of our towns. The intentions of one owner frustrate
those of his neighbour, with the result that economic,
utilitarian, aesthetic, and hygienic considerations seem
to have been grudgingly included in the scheme of
things which comprehends the growth of towns. Nor
until the passing of the Act of 1909 was it possible
in this country that it should be otherwise.
TOWN PLANNING IN GERMANY.
This Act may be said to owe its origin in part,
at least, to the growing consciousness and uneasy
sense of contrast arising from comparison of British
towns with their Continental sisters.
The planning of German towns has perhaps
attracted the greatest amount of attention in this
country. Commissions have been sent out to study
the methods and results which characteristically are
exhibited in the towns of Germany. The power to
plan out the land at the growing edge of a town has