RT Journal
T1 TUrkey
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD September 14
VO 93
IS 11
SP 862
OP 863
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02710110048022
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710110048022
AB City Planning 
    Since the city of Angora became the capital of the country, the construction of a new addition in keeping with modern sanitary engineering and conforming to the latest standards of city building has occupied the president and government. Some time ago a city construction board was formed, composed of the undersecretary of state of the ministry of the interior, the director of the division of hygiene from the ministry of hygiene, an architect, an engineer and the noted German city builder Professor Jansen, the winner of the first prize in a competition for the best plan for the construction of the new part and reconstruction of the old part of the city of Ankara. Before the establishment of the new government there, the inhabitants numbered about 22,000; the 1927 census showed 70,000. This rather sudden increase in population resulted in high rents and great overcrowding with accompanying unhygienic