Excerpt from Lower Living Costs in Cities: A Constructive Programme for Urban Efficiency The urban problem is distinctly the great American problem of the day. According to the census of 1910, Of the people in the United States, one out of every ten per cent. To be exact) lives in the three cities of New York, Chicago and Philadelphia; one in every four lives in or within ten miles of cities having a population of or over; one in every three lives in some large urban district; and one in every two per cent.) lives in incorporated vil lages, towns and cities. We are clearly a nation of city dwellers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.