Comprehensive Planning for Small Towns and Villages

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Then smaller towns are important because of their great number. In 1900, there were over places in the United States with a population from to and the aggregate of these towns exceeded ten million. The figures of the 1910 cen sus will no doubt show a vast increase, and these figures will probably exceed the total of all cities with a population of or over. The six great cities with or more had by the same census (1900) only a population of less than these smaller towns. How ex tensive, therefore, are the interests of these widely distributed smaller cities, with more than ten mil lion souls to-day and the number and proportion steadily and rapidly increasing!