. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . dthe attractive etfects of the proper group-ing of well-designed buildings. Americancities have been most active in city plan-ning since the Chicago exposition. It is,therefore, a proper matter of pride for thepeople of Chicago that they have providedstiraulus for the artistic sense of the wholenation, and that their work in building upa commemorative exposition is having ef- railway station nearby, costing $5,000, city planning work has takenthe direction of park extensions, and it hascompleted the most perfect system of
. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . dthe attractive etfects of the proper group-ing of well-designed buildings. Americancities have been most active in city plan-ning since the Chicago exposition. It is,therefore, a proper matter of pride for thepeople of Chicago that they have providedstiraulus for the artistic sense of the wholenation, and that their work in building upa commemorative exposition is having ef- railway station nearby, costing $5,000, city planning work has takenthe direction of park extensions, and it hascompleted the most perfect system of pub-lic parks in the country at a cost of $33,-000,000, besides creating a tidal basin torival any in Europe. New York is alsoconserving the citys park domain and ex-tending it for many miles beyond her bor-ders. Much land in recent years has beentaken for public purposes along the Hud-son river, and converted into public is widening its streets, cutting parkways andbuying moreland forparks, besidesplanning thegrouping o fits city build-. The Washington Monument, Garden and Mall Looking Commission Plan. feet in arousing the pride and spirit of thepeople of our sister cities. One of the American cities which hasgained wide fame for its activity in cityplanning is Cleveland, where the peoplehave had created a great civic center aboutwhich the city is being built in an orderlymanner, and according to a definite people of Cleveland, through a com-mission, caused a new federal building, cityhall and public library to be built at thenew center at a cost of $14,000,000, and arepreserving proper architectural relationsbetween this group of buildings and a new In the mid-dle west Min-neapolis andSt. Paul, rivalc i t ie s, areworking t o-gether in the Toward the Capitol; Senate Park TipbUllamg 01 a park sys-tem, and in St. Paul agitation for streetwidening work is under way. St. Louis hasa plan for spending millions of dollars ingrouping the city buildings, a
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