Public works . ugstores, ofEices. groceries, markets, amusement places, lodgerooms, garages and stables. Shows natural business centersthat have grown up about a half-mile apart throughoutthe city. One of the interesting points relative to city planningthat is brought out in this bulletin is the fact that a pri-vate company, the Pacific Telephone and TelegraphCompany, had recognized the value of an accurate andthorough survey of conditions in a city as a basis forplanning the future development of its enterprise. Ifthis is the case with a private corporation, whose inter-ests are limited to on
Public works . ugstores, ofEices. groceries, markets, amusement places, lodgerooms, garages and stables. Shows natural business centersthat have grown up about a half-mile apart throughoutthe city. One of the interesting points relative to city planningthat is brought out in this bulletin is the fact that a pri-vate company, the Pacific Telephone and TelegraphCompany, had recognized the value of an accurate andthorough survey of conditions in a city as a basis forplanning the future development of its enterprise. Ifthis is the case with a private corporation, whose inter-ests are limited to one feature of development only, howmuch more valuable and important must a complete sur-vey be for the city, which is interested and vitally con-cerned in all lines of development, including those of thepublic utilities. The company named spent a great manythousand dollars in 1918 making a survey of Portlandto obtain fundamental data on which to base its in-vestments in switchboards, conduits and equipments dur-. POPULATION DISTRIBUTION, AS DETERMINED BY SURVEY OF PAC. TEL. & TEL. CO. Each dot represents ten families. 15,184 families west of Willamette river average persons per family. 42,28S families east of river average persons per family. August 23, 1919 MUNICIPAL JOURNAL AND PUBLIC WORKS 117 ing the next twenty years. The results of this surveywere generously placed at the commissions disposal bythis company, and the commission in this report thanksthe company therefor in behalf of the city. Some ofthe results of the survey made by the company are showngraphically by the accompanying illustrations, one in-dicating the distribution of population densities and an-other the distribution of minor business centers through-out the city. The commission believed that practical work on anultimate plan required it to act as the co-ordinating agentof city development, in carrying out which it called intoconference the County Commission, the Dock and PortCommission and the Cham
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