. Development and present status of city planning in New York City . e who compares the designs as first submitted to themwith the designs as they finally approve them. Under Mayor McClellan for the two years following July 1, 1907,Mr. Walter Cook sei-ved as Consulting Architect to the Board of Esti-mate and Apportionment. His duties were to supervise the preparationof plans, designs and specifications connected with the construction ofall public buildings authorized by the Board of Estimate and Apportion-ment. His work was creative and he had the initiative which the ArtCommission lacked. In
. Development and present status of city planning in New York City . e who compares the designs as first submitted to themwith the designs as they finally approve them. Under Mayor McClellan for the two years following July 1, 1907,Mr. Walter Cook sei-ved as Consulting Architect to the Board of Esti-mate and Apportionment. His duties were to supervise the preparationof plans, designs and specifications connected with the construction ofall public buildings authorized by the Board of Estimate and Apportion-ment. His work was creative and he had the initiative which the ArtCommission lacked. In this capacity he had a marked effect on thequality of City architecture during the two years that he was in office. There remains much constructive work to be done in carrying outthe future building of the City, not only in creative design, but in choos-ing sites and in the study of the relative location of buildings as erectedby different departments, so as to gain such effectiveness as can besecured by grouping. The City needs some one body that can keep a clear. perspective of the whole field of development and who will see that indi-vidual building projects as they come up conform to the great compre-hensive plan. CoXTROLLlXG PlUVATE DEVELOPMENT Probably tlie most useful function the City can exercise along gen-eral city planning lines is in the control of the improvement and develop-ment of pi-ivate property. Every city suffers great economic and sociallosses from the haphazard development of its private property. As thingsare now, with rare exceptions, every district and even every parcel ofproperty is developed by itself, with little or no reference to its relationwith its surroundings or to the most desirable development of theneighborhood. In Germany the city governments do show a decidedcontrol over the development of private property, and the advantageswhich their methods present in efficiency, economy, convenience and gen-eral well-being, are most obvious. In Americ
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