City Planning and Engineering: Energy, Communications, and the Environment

Abstract

In the U.K. at the present time, city planning and engineering arise almost entirely from the need for redevelopment and renewal. The increasing rate of energy consumption, manifested in various forms of human activity, continually intensifies the use of land and of highways and other means of communication. Some of the power derived from energy consumption is devoted to the production of static structures, some of it to demolition and rebuilding in order to provide highways, some of it in movement and in industrial and commercial production, and an increasing part of it in maintenance. The modern paradox arises from an increasing mass of structures and technical complexity and a shorter economic life.