. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . Rhine. On this Structure Several Hundred given ing history of the British capital, to whichwe will now give attention. In 1666 a great fire almost entirely de-stroyed London, which was, like other cit- CITY BUILDING IN EUROPE 49 ies of its time, a very crowded and un-wholesome city, with narrow and crooked-streets. The city had grown slowly, andwithout kny definite plan of the population in-creased new territoryhad been added, butit was a planless cityand inconvenient asto its thoroughfareseven at that the
. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . Rhine. On this Structure Several Hundred given ing history of the British capital, to whichwe will now give attention. In 1666 a great fire almost entirely de-stroyed London, which was, like other cit- CITY BUILDING IN EUROPE 49 ies of its time, a very crowded and un-wholesome city, with narrow and crooked-streets. The city had grown slowly, andwithout kny definite plan of the population in-creased new territoryhad been added, butit was a planless cityand inconvenient asto its thoroughfareseven at that the fire SirChristopher Wren,one of the worldsgreatest architects,prepared a plan forthe rebuilding of thecity. Had that planbeen adopted London would have had astart of more than thirty years of all theworlds cities in orderly constructive work, adopted for the French capital. They pro-vided for a city with streets radiating fromcentral points, and for locating palaces andpublic buildings at the end of long
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