. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . Pericles, who planned ancient Athens. From a MarbleBust in the Vatican, Athens and the Acropolis. not only to make Athens the worlds mostfamous city of its day, but to establish for a nation shattered and destroyed thousandsof years ago a place in history today ashigh and proud asever was attained byany people. The Greeks in thebuilding of Athenshad in mind princi-pally the creation ofbeauty. Their aim,in which they so wellsucceeded, was to pro-duce from stone andmortar a work of artwhich would enthrallthe world, and gainfor
. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . Pericles, who planned ancient Athens. From a MarbleBust in the Vatican, Athens and the Acropolis. not only to make Athens the worlds mostfamous city of its day, but to establish for a nation shattered and destroyed thousandsof years ago a place in history today ashigh and proud asever was attained byany people. The Greeks in thebuilding of Athenshad in mind princi-pally the creation ofbeauty. Their aim,in which they so wellsucceeded, was to pro-duce from stone andmortar a work of artwhich would enthrallthe world, and gainfor the people of Ath-ens the worlds trib-ute to beauty in archi-tecture. Their suc-cess is known to all ofus today, for we allknow that when thepeoples of northernEuropeemerged fromthe period ofwarfare anddisrupt! onknown in his-tory as theDark Ages,and began thebuilding ofcities, theworlds archi-tects turnedto fallen Ath-ens for in-spiration, andwe know thatour mostbeautiful buildings today are constructedalong lines created by the Greeks. CITY BUILDING IN ANCIENT TIMES 35 The idealscity planninggreat de-g r e e whenthe Eomanscame to ad
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