Excerpt from Replanning Reading: An Industrial City of a Hundred Thousand The original plan for a town in this country is important, not only because the part first laid out and settled is apt to remain the centre of the larger city, but also because so far we have shown so little capacity to break away from the method of plan ning streets and blocks which is first inaugurated, Whatever that method may happen to be. There is a great difference in the United States between the street plans for one city and another, but much ...
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Excerpt from Replanning Reading: An Industrial City of a Hundred Thousand The original plan for a town in this country is important, not only because the part first laid out and settled is apt to remain the centre of the larger city, but also because so far we have shown so little capacity to break away from the method of plan ning streets and blocks which is first inaugurated, Whatever that method may happen to be. There is a great difference in the United States between the street plans for one city and another, but much less difference between the method of street arrangement of the same city as applied a century apart. There seems to be-a sort of fatalism in American cities which compels them to follow mechanically a system once inaugurated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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