Civic Design

Schools of Architecture, in their departments of civic design, teach town planning which creates the general impression, that both are the same. The Encyclo­paedia Britannica which devotes pages to City Planning is significantly silent on the subject of civic design. Nor has any history of civic art yet been published, as affirmed by Sir Alfred Richardson, President of the Royal Academy at the Town Planning Institute, last year. Hugh Wilson considers civic design as town planning in the widest sense. Henry Churchill defined it as town planning in three dimensions.