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Show SCO City Planners Swap Ideas At Cleveland Meet CLEVELAND, Oct 1 0PV What la wrong with the layout of the modem American eityT "Plenty," a-reed about 600 city planners Monday. They net at the openlnf of the ISth annual national na-tional planning conference of the American Society of Planning Officials. Of-ficials. One of them. Welter H. Blucher, a founder and executive director of the society, said downtown areas of typical large cities face disintegration unless drsstio steps are taken to rebuild them. For example, transportation: "If only we would spend one tenth of the money that goes Into ' highways for transit facilities," he said, "we would have the transportation trans-portation problem solved." In recognition of the need for municipal face-lifting, the federal government has spproprlated el.500,000,000 for urfaea redevelopment. |