ABSTRACT
In most encouraging and, for the pessimistic author, highly surprising fashion, the basic idea of this book – that is, to go to school with nature and the old masters also in matters of town planning – has already been vigorously put into practice since its first publication. The opinion so often publicly expressed by important professional colleagues, that through this book city planning was given a totally new direction and that such is to its credit alone, must be corrected because a literary work can provoke such an effect only when the whole matter is already in the air. 1
