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The average annual rainfall approximately 32 inches.third largest city in the state, Rochester : center of a metropolitan area which includes Monroe County and which has a population 9) of 582,983. Variously known as the ver City, the Kodak City, and the Home of uality Products, it is also the commercial city hub if the rich agricultural Genesee country, so that Rochester's service area has a total of approxi-aately a million people.The first decade of the 20th century saw the beginning of modern city planning. As Professor Frederick J. Adams has pointed out, 1909 is a key year. It was in that year that the first British Housing and Town Planning Act was passed; it was in that year that the Chicago commercial city Club published the great Burnham Plan ; and it was in that year that the first National Conference on City Planning was held in Washington, D.C., at which the participants laid strong emphasis on the need for economic studies in city planning and on the importance of comprehensive and coordinated treatment of city problems.
The city's heritage from that highly successful enterprise includes two handsome juildings: the Civic Auditorium in the Civic Center and the Palace of Fine Arts on the former fairgrounds. The last-named, which was a. ;emporary structure, is being rebuilt of permanent materials. Most recent of the city's world fairs was the Golden Gate International Exposition, which served the dual purpose of celebrating the completion of the San Francisco-Oakland and the Golden Gate bridges and the city's close cultural and commercial city ties with the countries bordering on the Pacific.
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