. 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 . able at their ends, where such deviationwas necessary for the purpose of connecting them withthe existing extra-mural routes. Thus we find onegreat and straight thoroughfare piercing the wall atAldgate, and, traversing the whole length of thecity, leaving it at Temple Bar; another, enteringthe wall at the Tower, converging upon the formerat St. Pauls, and passing out at the same historicportal; another, joining t
. 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 . able at their ends, where such deviationwas necessary for the purpose of connecting them withthe existing extra-mural routes. Thus we find onegreat and straight thoroughfare piercing the wall atAldgate, and, traversing the whole length of thecity, leaving it at Temple Bar; another, enteringthe wall at the Tower, converging upon the formerat St. Pauls, and passing out at the same historicportal; another, joining that entering by Bishops-gate, ran from the Royal Exchange square and leftthe City at Holborn Bar. Exactly at the centre of his city he was enabledto get a thoroughfare at right angles traversing itcompletely in a northerly direction, and parallel withthis he ranged his cross streets, thus forming a this arrangement been carried out with appro-priate width of streets—such as he would havewished—it is interesting to note that it would, byits style, have formed a fitting progenitor of themodern American cities which followed in its wakemore than a century later. 82 B. co*oao O (V a o 82 C w < n 3 S1
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