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American cities ARCHITECT CAMBRIDGE MASS attractive AVENUE axial growth Bay Front beauty block Boston boulevards central growth Charles Mulford Robinson citizens City Park city plan Civic Centre Civic Improvement climate commerce COMPREHENSIVE PLAN connection Cornelius Gurlitt CORONADO COURT HOUSE Date and Elm DATE STREET ESPLANADE FE RAILROAD STATION feet wide FOOT OF DATE Fort Stockton Frederick Law Olmsted future GOLDEN GATE PARK HOTEL DEL CORONADO ILLUSTRATION JOHN NOLEN LANDSCAPE KANSAS CITY land LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT CAMBRIDGE located MISSION CLIFF natural NOLEN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT North Olmsted Brothers open spaces opportunity parkways PASEO picturesque PLAN FOR ST playgrounds PLAZA AND CIVIC Point Loma POST-OFFICE public buildings PUBLIC PLAZA real estate replanning residence streets RIO DE JANEIRO RIVERSIDE ROADWAY WALK SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SANTA FE RAILROAD SÃO PAULO scenery sidewalks Southern California square STREET STREET STREET street system system of parks tion to-day Torrey Pines treatment WATER FRONT width
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Page 53 - The thing that most needs to be understood about play is, that it is not a luxury, but a necessity; it is not simply something that a child likes to have, it is something that he must have if he is to grow up.
Page 73 - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility ; Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Page 106 - ... with reservations concerning the future use and occupation of such real estate so as to protect such public works and improvements and their environs and to preserve the view, appearance, light, air and usefulness of such public works.
Page 81 - Pelicans have assembled after their day's fishing, in which occupation they are the rivals of the Portuguese. The perfect crescent of the ocean beach is seen, the singular formation of North and South Coronado Beach, the entrance to the harbor along Point Loma, and the spacious inner bay, on which lie San Diego and National City, with low lands and heights outside, sprinkled with houses, gardens, orchards, and vineyards.
Page 106 - In scarcely anything to be determined by local public opinion acting influentially upon local legislation and administration, is a city likely to be so much made or marred for all its future as in proceedings in prosecution of a park project.
Page 97 - I declared there is no other question now before the nation of equal gravity with the question of the conservation of our natural resources, and I added that it is the plain duty of us who, for the moment, are responsible to take inventory of the natural resources which have been handed down to us, to forecast the needs of the future, and so handle the great sources of our prosperity as not to destroy in advance all hope of the prosperity of our descendants.
Page 106 - For establishing esplanades, boulevards, parkways, park grounds, and public reservations in, around and leading to public buildings and for the purpose of reselling such land with reservations in the deeds of such resale as to the future use of said lands so as to protect public buildings and their environs and to preserve the view, appearance, light, air and usefulness of public grounds occupied by public buildings and esplanades and parkways leading thereto.
Page 95 - ... shadows, some refinement of lines, some poetic tints in violet and ashy ranges, some ultramarine in the sea, or delicate blue in the sky, will remind the traveller of more than one place of beauty in Southern Italy and Sicily. It is a Mediterranean with a more equable climate, warmer winters and cooler summers, than the North Mediterranean shore can offer; it is an Italy whose mountains and valleys give almost every variety of elevation and temperature.
Page 106 - The amount collected (in taxes) in twenty-five years on the property of the three wards (the wards contiguous to Central Park), over and above the ordinary increase in the tax value of the real estate in the rest of the city, was $65,000,000, or about $21,000,000 more than the aggregate expense attending and following the establishment of the park up to the present year. Regarding the whole transaction in the light of a real estate speculation alone, the city has $21,000,000 in cash over and above...
Page 96 - The climate is most agreeable the year through. There are no unpleasant months, and few unpleasant days. The eucalyptus grows so fast that the trimmings from the trees of a small grove or highway avenue will in four or five years furnish a family with its firewood. The strong, fattening alfalfa gives three, four, five, and even six harvests a year. Nature needs little rest, and, with the encouragement of water and fertilizers, apparently none. But all this prodigality and easiness of life detracts...