San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 361
an walking on the street occupies aboutten square feet of surface; an automobilestanding or parked occupies one hundred squarefeet; an automobile moving slowly occupies twohundred square feet of surface and, if it isspeeded up to fifteen or twenty miles per hour,it occupies three or four hundred… … SHOWING CONGESTION ON NARROW STREETS FIRST STEP TOWARD IMPROVEMENT 54 August, 192 7 AR.CHlTtCT AND ENGINEER. 55 nothing to do with it. Skyscrapers or no sky-scrapers, the condition would be the same. Itis the same today in European cities, where theautomobile is not in use to the extent it is here.…
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