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Posted by ntrainride on Mon Feb 12 18:23:45 2007, in response to Re: A Transit Robert Moses Guy, posted by Rail Blue on Mon Feb 12 15:53:00 2007. Hmmm, GARDEN CITIES OF TO-MORROW" , eh? Interesting.Here's a clip from him that tells it nicely: "And this principle of growth--this principle of always preserving a belt of country round our cities would be ever kept in mind till, in course of time, we should have a cluster of cities, not of course arranged in the precise geometrical form of my diagram, but so grouped around a Central City that each inhabitant of the whole group, though in one sense living in a town of small size, would be in reality living in, and would enjoy all the advantages of, a great and most beautiful city; and yet all the fresh delights of the country--field, hedgerow, and woodland--not prim parks and gardens merely--would be within a very few minutes' walk or ride. |
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