. City planning progress in the United States, 1917. ty Hall, Post Office, Iirc ,Library, and Other Buildings. The Library is the central feature in this view. Two of the intersecting streets are important downtown thoroughtares, which it isproposed to widen. by all the business meti ot the city—manuhicturers, mer-chants, and bankers—to steer the city in the way it shouldgo it something more than a war boom, a prosperity flash-in-the-pan, is to come from the development of the lasttwo years. The most tangible, perhaps, the most sociallyvital thing that this Chamber has accomplis
. City planning progress in the United States, 1917. ty Hall, Post Office, Iirc ,Library, and Other Buildings. The Library is the central feature in this view. Two of the intersecting streets are important downtown thoroughtares, which it isproposed to widen. by all the business meti ot the city—manuhicturers, mer-chants, and bankers—to steer the city in the way it shouldgo it something more than a war boom, a prosperity flash-in-the-pan, is to come from the development of the lasttwo years. The most tangible, perhaps, the most sociallyvital thing that this Chamber has accomplished so far isthe organization of the Housing Committee, incorporated with a capital ot 5i,000,000, to see that there is as muchcare and skill and thought for the future put into thebuilding ot the homes as into the construction ot the manyacres of industrial plants. In addition, the city has justhad a bond issue of 12,275,000, something unprecedentedin the history of the city, and every cent of which is tobe expended in making it a better Bridgeiort.—General Plan for Proposed main traffic routes are shown in Wack lines; proposed new routes, in broken lines; dotted areas show existing and pro-posed parks. 24 CITY PLANNING PROGRESS A Cumprehensive Plan—igi6.—But it is Bridgeportspeculiar good fortune that she has at this time a cityphmning conimission, created in August, igij, just a yearbefore the outbreak of the war, to undertake a study ofthe problems of housing, health, recreation, street traffic,civic and neighborhood centers, in a comprehensive funds for this study were contributed jointly by thecity and members of the Chamber of Commerce, a totalof about $ii,ooo. John Nolen, ot Cambridge, Mass., wasengaged to prepare the plans. In 1914 a preliminaryreport containing the results of a survey ot existing con-ditions was submitted. In October, 1915, a special reporton East Bridgeport, as a suggestion for the guidance ofthe city in
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