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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 543

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n he decided to starta city on the Delaware. Now I wonder if you can see any flaw insuch a plan—for instance, when it grows toolarge. You see, Penn never imagined whatan enormous area this city was finally to cover. straight to the center, and perhaps from otherdiagonal directions, too. So the… … PJjAN of a WHOl^ CITY INVENTED BY A THIKTEEN-YEAIl-OLD BOY AND WmCH WONA COMPETITION IN CITY PLANNING Suppose this great space to be nicely andevenly covered with squares, and that youwanted to go from the northeast corner tothe center of the city (where the City Hall is).How would you do it ?…

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