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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    ! • HOME PLANNING in to a considerable extent. One notable ex- ample is seen in new parts of Naples, which with flourishing foliage form a delightful con- trast to old sections near the bay. Although many of the large European cities have the disadvantage of being built upon a I medieval base, their housing conditions are not in the main worse than those of the large cities of America. The closely built new sections of European cities are probably better con- structed than similar sections of most American cities, but the beautiful, detached single-family house, set back from the street and surrounded by a spacious lawn, a type common to the best residence streets of American cities, is almost I entirely lacking on the continent of Europe. I Oceasionally a street lined with handsome villas, I each \vith its walled yard, is found in European i cities, but the large many-family house is the f prevailing type. I In an interesting chapter of his “Municipal I Government in Europe,” Albert Shaw describes I housing conditions in Berlin in 1885. In that II year the statistical bureau of the city made a study of housing conditions in their relation ito health and laid the foundation for the housing reforms that followed. It was found that out of a total population of 1,315,000, 73,000 were ^ living in one-room dwellings, 382,000 in two- f room dwellings, 432,000 in three-room dwell- ers ]