An Introduction to City Planning: Democracy's Challenge to the American City (Metropolitan America Ser)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...of Baron Haussman, all quarters of Paris have been bound together by a system of grand avenues and boulevards. The net expense was about $2,400,000, and private individuals were obliged to conform strictly to the plans and regulations of the municipality in building up the new frontage secured by the demolishing 01 vast areas. The boulevards, avenues and open spaces of the city are its wonder, and the delight of thousands of American travellers. Large areas have since been added to the earlier City of Paris. It is significant, therefore, that the health authorities of Paris at present appreciate the incompleteness of the early plans, and that one of the most important municipal problems of the city is the bettering of housing conditions. A project is now before the Municipal Government to appropriate $2,000,000 for the demolishing of unsanitary areas where tuberculosis is rife and the appalling death rate from tuberculosis within brief distance of the improvements and boulevards indicates the need for a wider scope of city planning than that undertaken by Baron Haussman. Vienna. Vienna has had a most remarkable growth. The first plan was incorporated by Emperor Francis Joseph I., who insisted upon the demolishing of old fortifications and the laying out of the city upon a norma! basis. Before 1890 Vienna consisted of ten districts. In that year a suburban belt was annexed and a rearrangement of divisions made. Since then the outer street system has been revised, the thirty or forty communities annexed have been consolidated and arranged as nine environing wards. The street railways which are at present owned by the municipality are centered upon the Ring Strasse, and there are special concessions to school children, and workingmen's cars morning and evening...