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The improvement of towns and cities; or, The practical basis of civic aesthetics (1913)

Robinson, Charles Mulford, 1869-1917 · New York, G.P. Putnam · leaf 118

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heraldicdevices giving to advertisements a beauty long un-known, the business streets of cities no more would Ube H&vcrtiscmcnt ©roblem 93 be meaningless printed lines. There would benothing violently assertive, nothing glaring; butart would stud with beauty, life, and interest thebackground of… … CHAPTER VI MAKING UTILITIES BEAUTIFUL TO bring art into the street, to make the acces-sories of a modern thoroughfare artistic andbeautiful, so that the eye as it travels down thevista of street may not merely find nothing to grateon its finer sense, but may discover grace in many anobject of…

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