. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. gs for a house. We mustcultivate in our own minds and in themind of the people, the conception of acity plan as a device or piece of adminis-tration machinery for preparing and keep-ing constantly up to date, a unified fore-cast and definition of all the importantchanges, additions and extensions ofthe physical equipment and arrangementof the city which a sound judgmentholds likely to become desirable and prac-ticable in the course of time, so as toavoid, as far as poss
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. gs for a house. We mustcultivate in our own minds and in themind of the people, the conception of acity plan as a device or piece of adminis-tration machinery for preparing and keep-ing constantly up to date, a unified fore-cast and definition of all the importantchanges, additions and extensions ofthe physical equipment and arrangementof the city which a sound judgmentholds likely to become desirable and prac-ticable in the course of time, so as toavoid, as far as possible, both ignorantlywasteful action and ignorantly wastefulinaction in the control of the citys physi-cal growth. It is not a means by whichone group of men or one generation maydictate to their successors or relieve thelatter of responsibility. It is a meansby which those who become at anytime responsible for decisions affect-ing the citys plan may be preventedfrom acting in ignorance of whattheir predecessors and their colleaguesin other departments of city life havebelieved to be the reasonable contin-gencies. . .. TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION IN IIAMPSTEAD GARDEN CITIES IN ENGLAND* W. TEMPLETON JOHNSON THE damp climate of Great Britain,which permits hixuriant plant lifeeven in deep shade, and the influ-ence exerted by hundreds of years ofconstant contact with the gardens of thegreat landed estates, have led to theevolution of the garden city in garden city, as we know it today,was instituted about thirty years ago,as a housing adjunct for a great industrialenterprise. In 1887 the firm of LeverBros., soap manufacturers, bought someland between Birkenhead and Liverpoolon which to build homes for their em-ployees. The first houses constructedwere too costly to be profitable, and oflate years the expense of maintainingroads and parks has risen, so that on aninvestment of $1,500,000 there is noprofit after the payment of fixed charges,but Mr. Lever believes in carrying on t
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