Thomas Adams, General Director of Plans and Surveys of the Regional Plan of New York and its Environs, will undertake a study for the new Harvard School of City Planning this spring. He will conduct a research on the optimum densities for residential distribution in English Garden Cities and Suburbs.

During the latter part of the second half-year he will deliver several lectures before the School on the subject of his investigations. The work is to be carried on for the benefit of professional men and men engaged in the practice of city planning as well as for the students of the school. Adams has had wide experience in the surveys for the Regional Plan of New York.