for his helpful criticism of the book as a whole; for the statements and opinions of which, however, the author assumes entire responsibility.
The author wishes also to thank the Chamber of Commerce of Akron, Ohio (for whom Akron and its Planning Law was written), the City Planning Commission of Bridgeport, Connecticut (for whom the Report on Legal Methods of Carrying Out the Changes Proposed in the Plan of Bridgeport was prepared), D. Appleton and Co., publishers of City Planning (National Municipal League Series, New York, 1916), and the editors of the American City, Journal of the American Institute of Architects, Landscape Architecture, and the National Municipal Review, for their permission to use again material first printed by them.
The author is greatly to indebted to William C. Dickinson, Esq., for the making of the general index, and to the Economics Department of the New York City Public Library and the staff of the Library of the Harvard University School of Landscape Architecture, for invaluable assistance in the preparation of the bibliography.
