. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . SYSTEM FOR CHICAGO 131 be of about the same size as that on thesouth side, but of slightly different territory selected for this park isbounded on the east and west by NorthWestern avenue and Whipple street, three-quarters of a mile apart. Its north boun-dary is Lawrence avenue, and its southboundary is to be south of Irving Parkboulevard, making the park something overa mile in itsnorth andsouth dimen-s i 0 n. Thepark is to in-elude, also,some terri-tory lyingsouth of Irv-in g Parkb 0 u 1 e varda n d 01 h e rterritory t o
. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . SYSTEM FOR CHICAGO 131 be of about the same size as that on thesouth side, but of slightly different territory selected for this park isbounded on the east and west by NorthWestern avenue and Whipple street, three-quarters of a mile apart. Its north boun-dary is Lawrence avenue, and its southboundary is to be south of Irving Parkboulevard, making the park something overa mile in itsnorth andsouth dimen-s i 0 n. Thepark is to in-elude, also,some terri-tory lyingsouth of Irv-in g Parkb 0 u 1 e varda n d 01 h e rterritory t othe eastwardof NorthWestern av-enue. To connectthe threep a r ks thea r c h i t ectshave project-ed a greatcurvingb o u 1 e is to bea very widethoroughfare, drawn as though it were partof the border of a great circle having itscenter at South Halsted and West Cong-ress streets, where is planned the civiccenter of the future city. Beginning atGarfield boulevard, within the great southside park, the boulevard swings in an arcnorthward and CHICAGO,field Boulevard, It reaches its western extremity within the west sidepark at Fifty-second avenue and swingseastward and northward, terminatingwithin the north side park at Irving Parkboulevard. Western avenue lies in astraight line for eleven miles between theends of this sweeping, bow-shaped boule-vard. The great way itself is over thir-teen miles from end to end. <* The acqui- sition of then e c e s s aryground andcreation o fthese threep a r ks andthe bowb 0 u 1 e V ardwould a p-p r oximatelydouble thearea of Chi-cago s s y s-tem of largerparks. Ifthis were tobe done to-day Chicagowould be on-ly on an evenbasis as topark areawith the mostpro gressivecities. Thismuch parkextension work is necessary even now, andmuch more than this must be done by wayof creating small park areas within thecity as the population of Chicago single park plan ever undertaken byany city, however, is as pretentious, bolda
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