. 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 . co*oao O (V a o 82 C w < n 3 S1. * ^ i? LONDONS LUNGS 83 Perhaps even more interesting it is to note thescrupulous avoidance, upon the part of both Wrenand Evelyn, of curved thoroughfares. It will beobserved that such are conspicuous, in both plans,by their absence. Even the thoroughfares surround-ing the proposed piazza in Fleet Street — which,strangely enough, should have occurred to both—arescrupulously str
. 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 . co*oao O (V a o 82 C w < n 3 S1. * ^ i? LONDONS LUNGS 83 Perhaps even more interesting it is to note thescrupulous avoidance, upon the part of both Wrenand Evelyn, of curved thoroughfares. It will beobserved that such are conspicuous, in both plans,by their absence. Even the thoroughfares surround-ing the proposed piazza in Fleet Street — which,strangely enough, should have occurred to both—arescrupulously straight. Both, it will also be observed,had recourse to radiating streets, similar to thoseof Athens and Washington ; those of Wren radiatedprincipally from the piazza of the Royal Exchange,secondarily from the large piazza in Fleet Street(already referred to), and tertiarily from a pair ofpiazzas, one near St. Dunstans-in-the-East in thepresent Eastcheap, and the other about whereMansion House Station now stands, in clever con-bination with a large crescent piazza close to theapproach of London Bridge, and approximately whereKing Williams statue now stands. Thus we see Sir Christopher Wren would havebequeathe
Size: 1215px × 2057px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublisherlondo, bookyear1905
