Planning and National Recovery, Volume 71915 "Twenty years of city planning progress in the United States [by] John Nolen": 19th, p. 1-44. |
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Page 2 - Long Island City, as so laid out, adopted and established, showing the parks, streets, bridges and tunnels, and approaches to bridges and tunnels, as heretofore laid out, adopted and established pursuant to law, and the maps and profiles included in or accompanying the same, showing the grades of such streets duly fixed, adopted and established, shall constitute the map or plan of The City of New York to the extent and so far as they cover the territory lying within the said city, and as such is...
Page 36 - The clerks of council shall, upon introduction, furnish to the City Planning Commission, for its consideration, a copy of all ordinances and bills, and all amendments thereto, relating to the location of any public building of the city; and to the location, extension, widening, narrowing, enlargement, ornamentation, and parking of any street, boulevard, parkway, park, playground, or other public ground ; and to the relocation, vacation, curtailment...
Page 6 - In considering that subject, they could not but bear in mind that a city is to be composed principally of the habitations of men, and that strait sided, and right angled houses are the most cheap to build, and the most convenient to live in.
Page 36 - All plans, plots, or re-plots of lands laid out in building lots, and the streets, alleys, or other portions of the same intended to be dedicated to public use, or for the use of purchasers or owners of lots fronting thereon or adjacent thereto...
Page 5 - ... the city, and for quick movement of passengers and freight from one part of the town to another. It is obvious that transit needs cannot be accurately foreseen, but provision should be made for improving and extending them when needed. A large part of the transportation will always be in the streets themselves, and its adequacy and efficiency will be largely determined by the location and dimensions of the streets in which the intra-urban transit lines are located.
Page 42 - ... and that we could only hope, with busy men on the committee, to make progress during the year and not reach a definite conclusion. With regard to this particular subject, the best methods of land subdivision, the instructions to the committee as stated in the final circular sent out are broadly to gather and digest any information likely to be of practical assistance to those responsible for maintaining and improving the quality of land subdivision plans. But the committee decided to concentrate...
Page 36 - ... limits, shall be submitted to the City Planning Commission and approved by it before it shall be recorded. And it shall be unlawful to receive or record such plan in any public office unless the same shall bear thereon, by endorsement or otherwise, the approval of the City Planning Commission. The disapproval of any such plan by the City Planning Commission shall be deemed a refusal of the proposed dedication shown thereon.
Page 137 - There is a fear of intrusting the working out of new functions to existing officials. Existing officials are already loaded with work and it is thought that they will have neither the time, the inclination nor perhaps the ability to develop the new idea. A new commission, composed usually of unpaid members, is used to plant and care for the new undertaking, at least during its development period. Often the new function fails to take root as a permanent institution and the commission dies. If, on...
Page 226 - The wooded hills round at Vienna and the Foret de Soignes at Brussels are admirable European examples of the Nature Reserve; but although Vienna and Brussels, and other European towns, possess to a more or less extent these types, in no instance can they be seen definitely joined together in the same way as at Boston, which represents the highest achievement in this direction — the Metropolitan Park Commission extending over 38 neighboring cities and towns and including 15,000 acres of parks and...
Page 261 - The lot area seems to be the original determining factor. Deep lots are made narrow, and narrow lots lead to narrow buildings, usually undesirable for residence or business. Deep lots, even down to 70 feet or 80 feet, tend toward having rear buildings, often residences. These conditions lead toward congestion and low values.