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Planning a world metropolis (1909)

Hyde, Henry M. (Henry Morrow), b. 1866, Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) ICIU · [Chicago : Technical World Co.] · leaf 11

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subways are to be constructedunder the city streets and a complete,unified system of both surface and ele- which the city already owns along theshore of Lake Michigan, the intellectualand artistic center of the future worldmetropolis. A mile to the west and wellacross the river is to be established… … PLAN OF PROPOSED YACHT BASIN.Showing also rearrangement of down town streets. I vated roads is to be perfected. Withinthe city proper it is proposed to supple-ment the existing streets with severalcircles of boulevards and with a numberof diagonal arteries running out fromthe center like the spokes…

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