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Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy (1911)

Moody, Walter Dwight, 1874-1920, Wacker, Charles Henry, 1856-, Chicago Plan Commission · [Chicago, Printed by H. C. Sherman & co. · leaf 44

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uld its cities ex-tend their borders freely, and disregardthe necessity of being guarded from at-tacking foes. The greatest of these an-cient cities, and those whose works live inhistory as known to all mankind today,were laid out and built according to per-fect and complete plans, drawn by the… … The ear-liest knownexample ofa city builti n accord-ance with adefiniteJ) 1 a n wasB a b y 1 on,S ingularly,perhaps, itwas a wom-a n, QueenS e m i r amis, who de-cided uponthe work of Athens During Siege of the Venetians.Original drawing made in 1687. •t 4jCaa^3 ^^M H^Bj WM 91…

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