For the civic and sociological background of this study, consult
Professor Patrick Geddes’s Cities in Evolution, London: 1915, likewise
his Principles of Sociology in Relation to Economics. The latter can
be obtained through Le Play House, 65 Belgrave Road, London, S. W. 1.
The chapter on Westminster, by Mr. Victor Branford, in Our Social
Inheritance, London: 1919, is a unique introduction to the direct study
of social institutions and their architectural forms. The other volumes
in The Making of the Future series, edited by Messrs. Geddes and
Branford, should also have an important place on the student’s shelf.
Light on our more immediate problems will be found in the files of the
Journal of the American Institute of Architects. Note particularly Mr.
F. L. Ackermann’s article on Craftsmen--Machines--Speed--Credit, June,
1923, and Mr. Benton Mackaye’s article on the proposed Appalachian
Trail. See, also, the Power number of the Survey Graphic. The report
of the Committee on Community Planning of the American Institute of
Architects (1924) should be read in connection with the last chapter:
it treats in detail the difficulties that the architect confronts under
our present economic and social order. See, likewise, Mr. Ebenezer
Howard’s classic Garden Cities of Tomorrow.