From the editor

Abstract

In order to save costs, this edition uses a new cheaper process of reproduction. Hopefully, it will not adversely affect the quality of the magazine. Usually, we need to recruit articles from special authors on particular relevant topics, because there are very rare voluntary contributions from the readerskring. With this we would like to invite you friend to contribute to the magazine. The article should be about a practical project that the writer himself dealt with or an original concept or new contribution to the planning field. Because of the topicality of the South West African issue a special effort was made to obtain a contribution from the planning office of the South West African Administration dealing primarily with the people of the country. For some years now regional planning procedures and development plans in developing areas have received the main emphasis in the majority of regional planning offices in South Africa. In the National Physical Development Plan no reference is made to this particular field. Hopefully this initial publication of the Department of Planning and the En vironment will be followed up in the foreseeable future by more detailed information on the administration and planning procedures within each of the planning regions. The article on planning legislation in the Federal Republic of Germany may have some relevance to this particular field of interest.