Modern cities : progress of the awakening for their betterment here and in Europe / by Horatio M. Pollock and William S. Morgan.

  • Horatio Milo Pollock
Date:
1913
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    by making a commodious quay on the whole bank of the river from Blackfriars to the Tower. ]\Ioreover in contriving the general plan the folloAving particulars were chiefly considered and proposed: “The streets to be of three magnitudes; the three principal leading straight through the city, and one or two cross streets to be at least 90 feet wide; others 60 feet and lanes about 30 feet, excluding all narrow dark alleys with- out thoroughfares and courts. The Exchange to stand free in the middle of a piazza and be as it were the nave or center of the town, from whence the 60 feet streets as so many ways should proceed to all principal parts of the city; the building to be contrived after the form of the Roman Forum with double porticoes. Many streets also to radiate upon the bridge. The streets of the first and second magnitude to be carried on as straight as possible and to center in four or five piazzas. “The Key or open Wharf on the banks of the Thames to be spacious and convenient, with- out any interruption and with some large docks for deep laden barges. “The Canal to be cut up Bridewell 120 feet wide, with sashes (sluices or floodgates) at Holborn Bridge and at the mouth to cleanse it of all filth, and stores for coal on each side. The churches to be designed according to the [21]