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What of the city? America's greatest issue--city planning, what it is and how to go about it to achieve success (1919)

Moody, Walter Dwight, 1874-1920 · Chicago : A.C. McClurg & Co. · leaf 446

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ticed. In Europe the tenements or poorly developed districtsin the large cities are frequently turned into centers ofintensive development; or better still are taken over forparks. This was notably the case in Paris where, a. fewyears ago, the French capital purchased from the gov-ernment the old… … THE PLAN OF CHICAGO transformed from a district of wretched hovels into abeauty tract of health-giving breathing space where itwas most needed. The thickly scattered small and beautiful centralparks, squares, and open spaces of the European cities,interlinked with spacious, wooded avenues, give to…

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