ABSTRACT
The mode of approach we have just discussed can be best exemplified by examining several quite small towns. Moreover, the small town exhibits, in miniature, all the essential characteristics of urban growth. The functions of the urban community call for appropriate sites in the urban habitat. The application of ideas of aesthetic and practical planning, each appropriate to its age, extend and transform the habitat in each successive historical phase of its development. Such changes are accomplished by the erection of new structures, the demolition of old buildings, their conversion to new uses, and by the addition of new means of communication. Thus, while the historic town is closely adapted to its site, its lay-out and build also clearly reflect its functional character as an economic, cultural and administrative focus for the surrounding countryside. These and the new functions that it acquires, or with which it is endowed by high authority, demand space and appropriate sites within the urban complex.
