=3. What we get for our city taxes.= Make up from your own community’s latest annual report a table showing the per capita cost for each form of public service (streets, parks, schools, poor-relief, etc.). The figures in the auditor’s report divided by the population will give you the items. When your table is completed illustrate it by drawing a circle with sectors to represent the division of expenditure. Short Studies 1. =City planning: its scope and importance.= W. B. MUNRO, _Principles and Methods of Municipal Administration_, pp. 30-37. 2. =The city’s streets.= C. A. BEARD, _American City Government_, pp. 212-260. 3. =The organization of a city police force.= RAYMOND FOSDICK, _European Police Systems_, pp. 99-148; E. D. GRAPEr, _American Police Administration_, _passim_; RAYMOND FOSDICK, _American Police Systems_, pp. 188-216. 4. =How the public can help the police.= ARTHUR WOODS, _Policeman and Public_, pp. 162-178. 5. =What fire prevention means.= E. F. CROKER, _Fire Prevention_, pp. 1-37. 6. =The city’s work for the social welfare.= H. G. JAMES, _Municipal Functions_, pp. 150-185. 7. =City parks and boulevards.= CHARLES ZUEBLIN, _American Municipal Progress_, pp. 241-275. 8. =The city’s part in health protection.= HENRY BRUÈRE, _The New City Government_, pp. 314-334. 9. =Municipal recreation.= C. A. BEARD, _American City Government_, pp. 334-355; JOHN NOLEN, _City Planning_, pp. 139-158. 10. =Raising and spending the city’s money.= W. B. MUNRO, _Principles and Methods of Municipal Administration_, pp. 403-478. Questions 1. Make in parallel columns a list of municipal functions which you would classify as (_a_) political; (_b_) social; (_c_) economic or business functions. 2. Can you give, from your own observation, any examples of the needless expense or public inconvenience due to the failure of city departments to co-operate properly? 3. Take any atlas which contains the street plans of the larger cities and point out examples of the following: (_a_) gridiron or checkerboard planning; (_b_) diagonal avenues; (_c_) radial streets; (_d_) informal layout of streets. 4. Select some portion of your own city which seems to you to be well planned and some section which seems to be poorly planned. Give reasons for your selections. 5. Make a sketch plan for a residential suburb about one mile square on level ground with a small river, two hundred feet wide, running from east to west through it. Each building lot is to contain, on the average, about 20,000 square feet with access to both a street and an alley. Make provision for one double track street railway, conveniently located. Indicate appropriate locations for a one-acre park, an elementary school, a playground, a branch of the public library, a police station, a fire engine station, a bridge, a bath house, and an athletic field.