. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . ake°it BeauUtul territory, than upon the continent. Broadprojects for the housing of the workingclasses are being caried out in numerousBritish cities. Official boards are power by law to supervise town planningand building work all through the Britishisles. These official bodies have power,even in case the people of towns andcities do not realize theneed of building by an offi-cial plan, to order schemesof town-planning to be pre-pared and carried out. Thereis also a Public WorksLoan Commission, which au-thorizes loans to providemo
. Wacker's manual of the plan of Chicago; municipal economy . ake°it BeauUtul territory, than upon the continent. Broadprojects for the housing of the workingclasses are being caried out in numerousBritish cities. Official boards are power by law to supervise town planningand building work all through the Britishisles. These official bodies have power,even in case the people of towns andcities do not realize theneed of building by an offi-cial plan, to order schemesof town-planning to be pre-pared and carried out. Thereis also a Public WorksLoan Commission, which au-thorizes loans to providemoney for carrying out pro-posed works. These extensive powers incity planning, created by theBritish government, have comeas result of hundreds of yearsof sad experience to the Britishin their own city of London,which has over 7,000,000 people, and is, aswe all know, the worlds greatest city. Ithas been seen how Paris, the city, was developed by systematicwork and planning as it grew. Very inter-esting and instructive to us is the conti^d. 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
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