Modern civic art; or, The city made beautiful (1918)
Robinson, Charles Mulford, 1869-1917 · New York, Putnam · leaf 164
ction, as to constitute in itself a clear divisionbetween old and modern construction methods. The influence of this on civic art is pronounced.Tall buildings are concentrators of business. Greatoffice structures, side by side or facing each otheracross a narrow street, may easily house a… … architecture in tbe Businees district 125 one block of one street. It is this circumstancewhich has lately urged, with an insistence that hasbecome compulsion, the widening of many thorough-fares, the cutting through of new streets, and thestudy of a scientific system of street planning. Thetall…
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