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Modern civic art; or, The city made beautiful (1918)
Robinson, Charles Mulford, 1869-1917 · New York, Putnam · leaf 356
exemplifies that neglect of vegetation which isthe typical original sin in the cities of garden-likeItaly. But in the Piazza San Marco the sin is par-donable. Space is too precious, there is too littleroom for careless walking to have justified the trans-formation of this one broad square into a… … ©pen Spaces. 297 and is stranger in its breadth, in Venice, than agarden would have been. In the handsome Piazza del Popolo in Rome thereis one of the most interesting examples of the squaredeliberately planned for city embellishment. Thewhole view from the top of the Pincian Hill, whichoverlooks…Art, Municipal
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