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

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    CHAPTER III HOME PLANNING THE HOUSING PROBLEM Closely allied to city planning is home plan- ning—the problem of securing sanitary and comfortable homes for all the people. City planning deals with the city as a unit and aims to secure coordination between the various parts, and to make each part contribute to the wel- fare of the whole. Home planning deals with the family as a unit and promotes the health and well-being of the community by properly hous- ing each family. Without city planning urban home planning could never be a complete success, and without home planning city planning would fall short of its goal. A handsome tree-bordered street built up with wretched hovels would be as anomalous as a dirty, forlorn and treeless street fronting a series of beautiful villas. City planning that , provides convenient, well laid out streets, good drainage, good water, light and access to pub- lic service utilities, such as gas, electricity, tele- phones and trolley-cars, makes the comfortable home possible. It stops there, leaving the rest [41] I C
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