History of Milwaukee, city and county . , CITY or KEE ANDSIHlRBS. PLAN OF PROPOSED PRINCIPAL EAST AND WEST ART] EUES Wl> 1111:11: EU I \TION TO OTHEK ARTERTES BEING CONSIDERED IX CONNECTIONWITH REVISK1) IWKk |{() WW by the Board of Public Land Commissioners PROSPECTIVE MILWAUKEE—CITY PLANNING AND ZONING 513 of population. We, therefore decided to cast about to see whether anythingcould be done in Greater New York as a follow-up of the rapid transit plan, tosee that skyscrapers were avoided and to see that congested tenement housesshould uot pile into those places where
History of Milwaukee, city and county . , CITY or KEE ANDSIHlRBS. PLAN OF PROPOSED PRINCIPAL EAST AND WEST ART] EUES Wl> 1111:11: EU I \TION TO OTHEK ARTERTES BEING CONSIDERED IX CONNECTIONWITH REVISK1) IWKk |{() WW by the Board of Public Land Commissioners PROSPECTIVE MILWAUKEE—CITY PLANNING AND ZONING 513 of population. We, therefore decided to cast about to see whether anythingcould be done in Greater New York as a follow-up of the rapid transit plan, tosee that skyscrapers were avoided and to see that congested tenement housesshould uot pile into those places where the plan was working best, to the endthat better business conditions and better living conditions and better condi-tions all around could be brought to all parts of our great city. The Problem of Tall Buildings.—We thought in the beginning that sky-scrappers were the real problem, and the only one that might perhaps havesome solution. Consequently, as a start, for we had to start somewhere, theboard of estimate, which corresponds to your common council here, appoi
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