City Planning Needs Outlined by Mumford

"Planners should have to live in the developments they plan," Lewis Mumford, author and expert on city planning, said last night at a dinner given in his honor by the Council for Planning Action in Boston in the private dining room of the Oxford Grille.

Formed last summer by a group of thirty M.I.T. students and University graduates studying in the Graduate School of Design, the Council plans to bring the students of city planning into closer relation to the actual planning problems in Boston.

Following the dinner, Mumford answered questions from the floor and said that planning cannot be imposed from above nor cannot it be left entirely up to non-professional politicians. "This work takes the cooperation of thousands of people and we must begin at the bottom by educating people to the needs and problems of their communities," he stated.