Third report of the Commission on Beautifying the City of Norfolk, Virginia : July 1913-July 1915 (1915)
Norfolk, Va. Commission on Beautifying the City · [Norfolk, Va. : The Commission · leaf 26
ll, on a hot day, throw off250 gallons of water in an invisible vapor, thereby cooling theair to such an extent that it has been further estimated byscientific aboriculturists that a street lined with full growntrees, and having the advantage of the grateful shade andevaporation of this invisible… … Careful investigation of the movement for beautifying ourcities having been made, and the experiments of other citiestaken into consideration, the Commission found that it was theconcensus of opinion of nearly all cities that the work couldbe successfully accomplished only by municipal control…
Trees · City planning
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