Abstract
During the nine years since planning was made aware of the need for a middle-range bridge, there have been impressive advances toward its realization. The Community Renewal Programs have made important strides toward the achievement of a central intelligence junction, a continuing vigilance over emergent problems, a constant reclarification of policy through feed-back] methods, and the detailing of interim medium-range plans. These advances suggest the yet broader application of middle-range bridge principles in Community Development Programming. CDP would be concerned, similarly, with continuing identification and clarification of major city problems, with on-going data collection and prediction, with dissemination of the data to interested public and private groups, and with continuing analysis and revision of policies and programs. It is apparent that urban planning is working toward this new approach to planning practice which will improve the capacity of the New Planning to guide processes of the city.