. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . s, to the end that the sanitaryconditions of the principal thoroughfares would begreatly enhanced, whilst the cost of their upkeepwould be enormously minimized. I am obliged totake this course from the undeniable fact that roadsurface the best suited for self-propelling traffic isthat less well adapted to horse haulage. Thesepoints I deal with in Chapter IX., and will thereforeproceed to describe the subway syste
. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . s, to the end that the sanitaryconditions of the principal thoroughfares would begreatly enhanced, whilst the cost of their upkeepwould be enormously minimized. I am obliged totake this course from the undeniable fact that roadsurface the best suited for self-propelling traffic isthat less well adapted to horse haulage. Thesepoints I deal with in Chapter IX., and will thereforeproceed to describe the subway system of streetconstruction and cleansing I advocate. The great essential of street construction in myopinion is, firstly, that there should be nothingbeneath the road surface which could ever necessi-tate the breaking up of the vehicular portion of thethoroughfare, even if, for some abnormal cause, thesidewalk pavements should have to be disturbed. * The only ground upon which I would not make the ruleexclusive is that it might cause some small measure of incon-venience in the case of friends driving in by horse to visit theiracquaintances resident within the City. Plate I. 102 A. Diagram showing Cross-section of Ordinary and Invert Roadways. (1) Ordinary country road ; (2) the same worn with waggon-ruts ; (3) diagram ofcrown formed by two inclined planes ; (4) scientific form of road section, theparabola giving minimum tractive resistance ; (5) the two inclined planesinverted ; (6) longitudinal section of invert roadway, showing continuous gridand inclined waterways leading to medial gulleys. I 102 B Plate II. * * i
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