. St. Nicholas [serial] . GE. NEW JEESEY, AS REPLANNED BY A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY planned just as carefully as houses—indeeda great deal moi-e carefully ! How about that plan of Boston? EspeciallyOld Boston. Does it look as though any one north and south, and east and west, cuttingthe city into innumerable squares that arevery nearly square, too. There are no wind-ing cow-paths. It looks as regular as a grid. 917 918 HOW WOULD YOU PLAN A CITY? [Aug., Perhaps the old Quaker, William Penn, knewwhat he was about, when he decided to starta city on the Delaware. Now I wonder if you can see any flaw
. St. Nicholas [serial] . GE. NEW JEESEY, AS REPLANNED BY A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY planned just as carefully as houses—indeeda great deal moi-e carefully ! How about that plan of Boston? EspeciallyOld Boston. Does it look as though any one north and south, and east and west, cuttingthe city into innumerable squares that arevery nearly square, too. There are no wind-ing cow-paths. It looks as regular as a grid. 917 918 HOW WOULD YOU PLAN A CITY? [Aug., Perhaps the old Quaker, William Penn, knewwhat he was about, when he decided to starta city on the Delaware. Now I wonder if you can see any flaw insuch a plan—for instance, when it grows toolarge. You see, Penn never imagined whatan enormous area this city was finally to cover. straight to the center, and perhaps from otherdiagonal directions, too. So the gridiron plan is good—when youhave a small city. But when you have a largecity you must have a more direct way of go-ing to its center than by wandering aroundthe two shorter sides of very large triangles!. PJjAN of a WHOl^ CITY INVENTED BY A THIKTEEN-YEAIl-OLD BOY AND WmCH WONA COMPETITION IN CITY PLANNING Suppose this great space to be nicely andevenly covered with squares, and that youwanted to go from the northeast corner tothe center of the city (where the City Hall is).How would you do it ? Well, you would prob-ably have to go south until you reached thestreet the City Hall was on, and then westalong that street till you reached it. That is,you would travel along the sides—the twosmaller sides—of a right-angled triangle. Ifyou are only a short distance from the CityHall when you start, then it does nt makemuch difference. But if you are several milesaway, then to go along the two smaller sidesof such a large triangle takes up much moretime by far than it would take to go alongthe long side of it! That is, it would be agreat time-saver if there were a diagonalavenue running from the northeast corner Therefore, rather late, it is true, Philadel-pliia has
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