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Modern civic art; or, The city made beautiful (1918)
Robinson, Charles Mulford, 1869-1917 · New York, Putnam · leaf 362
will not suffice if—as to-dayin Copley Square in Boston—the architecture besafeguarded by legislation that prohibits the erectionof dwarfing sky-scrapers, and a protecting copingbe put around the precious space devoted to flowersand turf, while hideous trolley poles are permitted onthe boundary… … ©pen Spaces. 301 which beautiful and dignified architecture looks withplacidity, in beds of bright-hued flowers laid out infantastic contortions. Where this has been done, ina certain notable case, we have the effect of a civicskirt dance between a lovely library and church, allthe reposefulness of…Art, Municipal
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