Rural planning and development; a study of rural conditions and problems in Canada . ance. A few years prior to 1901 thecontrol of the planning and development of a great many of thesetowns was vested in rural municipalities and their present conditionreflects the good or bad management and direction they received inthe initial rural stages of growth. During the next twenty or thirty »s 5*|2 L»-2 o. ,a»o » s ssis H; = °- O <a< <o CO LU ; t-J-oO i a: Q. C/) 05 a en LlJ a: o5 £y P CemmisSion of ConservationTown-Planninj^ Branch 6,000,000 4,000,000 ,000
Rural planning and development; a study of rural conditions and problems in Canada . ance. A few years prior to 1901 thecontrol of the planning and development of a great many of thesetowns was vested in rural municipalities and their present conditionreflects the good or bad management and direction they received inthe initial rural stages of growth. During the next twenty or thirty »s 5*|2 L»-2 o. ,a»o » s ssis H; = °- O <a< <o CO LU ; t-J-oO i a: Q. C/) 05 a en LlJ a: o5 £y P CemmisSion of ConservationTown-Planninj^ Branch 6,000,000 4,000,000 ,000 ,315 1901 7^06J&43 7,000j000 e/MOjOOO SjDOO,000 Rural Districts Towns749,074 1901 RuralDislricis ^ Towns926,833 1911 1901 1911 liAJt ,000 3JQO0J0OO Total population Population in cities and towns Population in cities and towns und« in rural districts over 5000 Growth of Population in Small Cities, Towns and Rural Districts, Compared withGrowth in the Larger Cities. See Page 43. f.;*. 5. Number of workersincreased Lar^eCities4(r87o y^ ISurroundingZone*97 7% Increase of Population in Suburban Zones in the United States. {From Satellite Cities by Graham Romeyn Taylor) See Page 43 RURAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 43 years new industrial development in rural areas will take place,—and should be encouraged to take place to a greater extent thanhitherto. The better planning and direction of these new develop-ments by rural municipalities is greatly needed in the interest ofincreased production and rational development. In addition to the industrial growth which is taking place withinrural areas as a natural outcome of rural development, there is astrong tendency in Canada, as in England and America, for largemanufacturers to move from large urban centres to rural and semi-rural districts. The improvement in railway systems in territorysurrounding large cities, the development of the hydro-radia
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