. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . tion for city planning!Within the last thirty years a schoolof city planning has grown to be agreat institution among the Germans,with leading architects and gardeners;as its masters. Literally, hundreds of CITY BUILDING IN EUROPE 45 Oerman cities are at work on systematicextension and development. It is so, too,in France, Italy, Ans-t r i a and important city,and hundreds of smalltowns, are engaged incity planning and pre-paring for orderlygrowtli. Dusseldorf is one ofthe most progressiveof all European emi
. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . tion for city planning!Within the last thirty years a schoolof city planning has grown to be agreat institution among the Germans,with leading architects and gardeners;as its masters. Literally, hundreds of CITY BUILDING IN EUROPE 45 Oerman cities are at work on systematicextension and development. It is so, too,in France, Italy, Ans-t r i a and important city,and hundreds of smalltowns, are engaged incity planning and pre-paring for orderlygrowtli. Dusseldorf is one ofthe most progressiveof all European eminent writer,Frederick C. Howe,after a careful studyof Dusseldorf, says: I have oftendreamed of a citywhose ideals roseabove mere business,a city that was builtlike a home, that had acommunal bigness of vision, that , was plannedby city buil-ers, and thatserved its peo-ple as a fathermight servehis children,and I haveseen such cit-ies in Ger-many, the iia-t i 0 n whichalone has rec-ognized theportentiou ssignificance ofthe changewhich has tak-en place in the. Baron Georgres Eugene Haussmann, the GreatestCity Builder of AH Time. distribution of population. Of all Germancities, I think Dusseldorf is easily the is not an old resi-dence city like Dres-den or Munich. It isa comparatively newcity like Cleveland,Milwaukee, Indianapo-lis or Kansas City. Itspopulation was about69,000 people in 1910 it was 300,, too, is anindustrial city of miUs,factories and work-shops. It is one of thebest governed cities inthe world. It hasdreamed dreams anddared to carry theminto execution. It isalmost as beautiful asWashington, as full ofjoy of living as Paris i^-gjis^i^e^^^^^^
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