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 59
on, which au-thorizes loans to providemoney for carrying out pro-posed works. These extensive powers incity planning, created by theBritish government, have comeas result of hundreds of yearsof sad experience to the Britishin their own city of London,which has over 7,000,000 people, and is, aswe… … Rhine. On this Structure Several Hundred given ing history of the British capital, to whichwe will now give attention. In 1666 a great fire almost entirely de-stroyed London, which was, like other cit- CITY BUILDING IN EUROPE 49 ies of its time, a very crowded and un-wholesome city, with narrow and…
Art, Municipal · Public works
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