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Excerpt from The Supercity: A Planned Physical Equipment for City Life
The material parts of a city: its gridiron of streets and alleys, the miscellany of buildings of seemingly every description which fill the streets with uneven sky line and broken front; the public utilities, both on the surface and under ground - all these things; the streets and boulevards, the buildings and factories, the parks and public utilities - compose the physiml basis of city life and endeavor. They are the tools, the physical aids to urban people, the helpful or not so reliable means by which they carry on their daily life and work. And herein lies a great opportunity, for the physical aspects of a modern city can be vastly improved. This advance in the material basis of city life and work an be achieved through the careful planning of the city. The truth is, is it not - our cities, like children of the streets raising themselves, have had little nurture> They have grown up without forethought, without design - and they show the marks of it.
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