. City planning progress in the United States, 1917. 1^ 4n%i$» fl:. CAPITOL PARK COLUMBIA. AN© MALL «^^ LAMJSO ConMBiA.—A Suggested Civic Center for the Grouviing otColumbias Future Public Buildings; Part of a ComprehensivePlan for the Improvement of the City. his own expense with boulevards, driveways, and foot-paths, on plans drawn by Olmsted Brothers, of Brookline,Mass. Part of this land lay in the city and part extendedover mesas and the adjacent mountains. Perhaps themost valuable of these gifts was that of Monument ValleyPark, bordering Monument Creek, which, before thework was begun, wa
. City planning progress in the United States, 1917. 1^ 4n%i$» fl:. CAPITOL PARK COLUMBIA. AN© MALL «^^ LAMJSO ConMBiA.—A Suggested Civic Center for the Grouviing otColumbias Future Public Buildings; Part of a ComprehensivePlan for the Improvement of the City. his own expense with boulevards, driveways, and foot-paths, on plans drawn by Olmsted Brothers, of Brookline,Mass. Part of this land lay in the city and part extendedover mesas and the adjacent mountains. Perhaps themost valuable of these gifts was that of Monument ValleyPark, bordering Monument Creek, which, before thework was begun, was an unsightly 2-mile tract. Althoughthe city has the largest park acreage per capita ot any city in the country, it has less than 182 acres of developedpark close enough to the built-up sections of the city, tohave neighborhood value. Mr. Robinson points out theimmediate practical bearing ot this situation in the citysplan. The park system is plainly deficient as far as ser-vice to the bulk ot people ot the city is concerned, butthe disproportion of financia
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