A Major Street Plan for St. Louis: The City Plan Commission, St. Louis, Missouri (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from A Major Street Plan for St. Louis: The City Plan Commission, St. Louis, Missouri

No finer example of the influence of good and bad street plan upon city life and city growth can be found than in St. Louis. Along the river front from Spruce street to Washington avenue are the little old streets, thirty and forty feet wide, first laid out by the French in 1766. Here was copied the checkerboard plan used by Wm. Penn in Philadelphia, even to the names - Pine, Chest nut, Locust, Olive, Market, etc. The extreme narrow ness of these streets for modern city use has contributed probably as much as, if not more than, the decline of river traffic, to the apparent idleness which today dis tinguishes this part of our city. On the other hand, it would be difficult to find a more substantial type of urban residence development than in the so-called Cabanne Addition, where pleasant homes abound on wide, oc casionally winding streets with comparatively small tree lined roadways.

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.

Excerpt from A Major Street Plan for St. Louis: The City Plan Commission, St. Louis, Missouri

Appendix

Proposed law authorizing the establishment of building lines.

Proposed law authorizing the creation of a permanent assessment board.

Proposed law requiring approval of all land subdivisions.

Proposed constitutional amendment granting power of excess condemnation.

Proposed law authorizing creation of a county plan commission.

Proposed law authorizing creation of city plan commissions in small cities.

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.