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This is not an ordinary book on city planning. It is oblong and will therefore not fit into one's bookcase; it is illustrated by cartoons; it jumbles the authors' social views with their views on physical planning; when one gets ready to shout agreement on one page, one is driven to brooding by the next.

But then, according to the blurbs, Architect Percival dislikes efficiency, while Paul's ideas are “a ballet . . . as cerebral as a chess game where the players have been hopped up with benzedrine.” You are granted a kind of explanation at the end of the book: “Somewhat playful we trust it is; for the dialectical muse cannot help but be both tragic and comic; for she is full of reversals.”

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