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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    Adsiikistbatiok by a close corporation, 167-176. Administrative control of cities in England, 314; in France and Germany, 315. Advantages of commission form, 193. Advertising in public streets, 77. Age, effect of, on death-rate of city, 155. Air, influence of, on health, 363 Albany, filtration plant of, 158. Alcohol, effect of, on death- rate, 163. Aldermen, choice of, 174. Altona, 303. American Civic Association, 3. American municipal misgov- ernment as a heritage, 377- 407. Ancient cities, planning of, 17. Animals in cities, 145. Antitoxin in diphtheria, 149. Appian Way in Rome, 395. Arcades, 73. Arc de Triomphe, 39, 38, 88. Arch, the triumphal, 87; of Severus, 88. Architecture, regulation of, 9. Arco della Pace in Milan, 88. Art, civic, 84; value of, in cities, 84-96. Arterial centers, 30. Athens of Pericles, the, 85. Automobiles, effect of, on city life, 6. Autonomous harbor board, the, in the Port of Genoa, 116. Avenue de la Grande Arm6e in Paris, 36, 81. Avenue du Bois de Boulogne in Paris, 83. Bacteria, 147, 148; pathogenic, 153. Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich, 93. Bank of San Giorgio, 118. Beauty, demand for, 9; in city planning, 16. Belgian block pavements, 69. Berlin, 6; death-rate in, 138; history of, with respect to mortality, 133; housing in, 45; regulation of height of buildings in, 71; street ad- vertising in, 78; table show- ing death-rates in, 1731- 1909, 134; table showing death-rates of children in, 1883-1907, 135. Berne, 37; arcades in, 73; Dalmazi Briicke, 74. Billboards, 77, 78. Biological discoveries, influ- ence of, on the city, 7. Birth of commission form of administration, 181. Bismarckstrasse, 80. Bologna, arcades in, 73. “Boss,” the, 178. Boss rule and the patronage system in smaller cities, 330. Boston, effect of merit system in, 319. Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, 89. Bribery, 337. Bridges, 73, 74. British cities, death-rate in, 139. British method of administra- tive control, 314. [409]
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