. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. the vninter-rupted vista from their houses interfered with. . .It seems advisable to provide for rational sports andforms of recreation, and yet the Board is of theopinion that changes for that purpose should bemade conservatively. Nearly five hundred thousand people living in the valley of the Charles may expectto have their health and happiness measurably enhanced by the conversion of what hadbecome a foul and unsightly tidal estuary into an unsurpassed loater park, s
. New Boston; a chronicle of progress in developing a greater and finer city--under the auspices of the Boston-1915 movement. the vninter-rupted vista from their houses interfered with. . .It seems advisable to provide for rational sports andforms of recreation, and yet the Board is of theopinion that changes for that purpose should bemade conservatively. Nearly five hundred thousand people living in the valley of the Charles may expectto have their health and happiness measurably enhanced by the conversion of what hadbecome a foul and unsightly tidal estuary into an unsurpassed loater park, similar inplan to the Alster Basin at Hamburg, Germany, but vastly greater in size and in possi-bilities of future development. Moreover, owing to its central location, a large proportionof these people who dwell in the tenements of Boston may reach and enjoy this Basin,both in summer and in winter, without even the expenditure of a car fare. To no othermetropolitan city in America has nature given the opportunity to develop such a beautyspot in its midst:—From the Report of the Charles River Basin Commission, ANCIENT AND MODERN BOSTON DR. J. V. C. SMITH ^ow that city planning is takiny definite shape in Boston through the appointmentoj the Metropolitan Flanning Commission, the folloivim/ article, written over a halfcentury ago by an ex-mayor of Boston, becomes of particular interest. The article whichappeared m the Boston Almanac for 1853, criiicizcs the city\^- short-siqhtcd policy ofnot laying out streets, parks and playgrounds for the welfare of future (/enerations; andthe conclusion is drawn that all municipal legislation should have reference to the wantsof the city hundreds of years hence instead of todays Dr. Smith urns mayor of Bostonin 1854, and, according to the Memorial History of Boston, a proposition for the enforcedsale of public lands in order to promote erection of buildings icas a feature of his admin-istration .—Editor. AGES upon ages before civiliz
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