. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . Birds-eye View of a House in Grand Promenade. <s 280 C i *<§* ^T^vi^SH!. Birds-eye View of a House in Grand Promenade. ^ ISA « a? I • ROOF GARDENS 281 an acutely pointed one. The answer is obvious ;it is only necessary to choose for that purpose thecorrect style of architecture with which this par-ticular type of summit contour will harmoniouslyassimilate. This is easily done, for we have not totravel so fa
. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . Birds-eye View of a House in Grand Promenade. <s 280 C i *<§* ^T^vi^SH!. Birds-eye View of a House in Grand Promenade. ^ ISA « a? I • ROOF GARDENS 281 an acutely pointed one. The answer is obvious ;it is only necessary to choose for that purpose thecorrect style of architecture with which this par-ticular type of summit contour will harmoniouslyassimilate. This is easily done, for we have not totravel so far as the Orient to witness the luxury-loving Oriental sipping his coffee and smoking hishookah, whilst catching such gentle zephyrs asmay be moving upon the roof of his domicile, therecomfortably ensconced on pillow and settee beneatha draped canopy, for we have only to consider theItalian style of architecture, as also the Grecian,and there we find that the instances in which theroof is invisible and surrounded by a coping—which may easily be evolved into a gracefulbalustrading—predominate. Lest, however, theremay still be doubt upon this point, I offer to thereader presentments of dwellings such as I propose,provided with flat concrete roofs and
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