Excerpt from The Width and Arrangement of Streets: A Study in Town Planning Alike on the part of the public and on that of individuals, and therefore healthfully, a demand has grown up for-town remodelling and for more thought of the future in tract development. It has grown o'ut of a wish to forestall, or the need to correct, the con dition which has been heretofore created by large and rapid municipal growth. Typical conditions have been those of streets filled with a traffic which they were unable to carry with safety and speed; have been the housing of the poor amid surroundings injurious to moral, physical and civic health; have been the loss of play space, for children and for adults; have been the reduction of industrial and commercial efficiency, the inconvenient location and the undignified crowd ing of public buildings; the excessive cost of corrective as compared with preventive measures. 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.