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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 39

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e streets. For streets which carryheavy traffic, the Plan proposes a width offrom seventy to ninety feet, with a road-way width of about half the entire space,and pavements of stone, in spite of thenoise; but in the thronged retail districtthe pavements should be smooth and noise-less, in spite of… … A PROPOSED CIVIC CENTER FOR BALTIMOREFrom the plan by Juhn M. Carrere, Arnold W. Hrunner, and Frederick E. Olmsted, Jr., architects. / Plan to the economic value of beautlfjingthe city, as well as to the wastefulness ofsmoke, dirt, and ugly, irritating sights andsounds. Thus, in connection with…

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