. 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 . he city ofPhiladelphia griddled across the city of ground, which is gently undulating, a crest90 feet above the average having been chosen as thesite of the Capitol, measures 4^ miles by 2\ milesbroad. From this a mental picture may be drawnof the length and stateliness of the avenues, whichvary from 120 feet to 160 feet in width, are all tree-clad, and connect numerous circular and triangulargard
. 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 . he city ofPhiladelphia griddled across the city of ground, which is gently undulating, a crest90 feet above the average having been chosen as thesite of the Capitol, measures 4^ miles by 2\ milesbroad. From this a mental picture may be drawnof the length and stateliness of the avenues, whichvary from 120 feet to 160 feet in width, are all tree-clad, and connect numerous circular and triangulargardens and reservations, interspersed as little parksthroughout the city. The streets and avenues thuslaid out are asphalted, and afford fine vistas ofhandsome public buildings, monuments and verdantsquares, with the Capitol and monument dominatingthe whole. The long diagonal avenues to which Ihave referred are named after the different States ofthe Union, whilst the streets running north and * The laying-out has also been attributed to Andrew Ellicott. ! It will be seen from the plan herein reproduced that SirChristopher Wren also proposed the employment of diagonalstreets. 72 B. jwm RADIATING THOROUGHFARES 73 south are numbered—those running east and westare named by the letters of the alphabet. Thecircular spaces formed by the intersection of thestreets and avenues form one of the most charmingfeatures of this fine city, some of the characteristicsof which might with advantage be borne in mind in! the laying-out of the First Garden City. The effect of these radiating thoroughfares inWashington has been to produce a number of! triangular open spaces, which, being laid out as\ gardens, add greatly to the beauty of the value of the diagonal thoroughfares is principallyutilitarian, for they materially shorten the distancesfrom the centre to the corners. They are, however,open to one serious practical objection—that theynecessitate a great number of buildings having ani
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