The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1909-05-10
ElTY'S FUTURE.
ming to Look Ahead and Lay
krds and Beautify Waterways
City Building.

I fore him is a great. living organism.
/ His study is to better it's framework,
i or skeleton, of streets and avenues,
! it's lungs of parks; its arms of trans
/ portation system, by which it reaches
/ the outside world, the hands with
i which it labors, it's heart of civic
/ center, the general physical condition
/ that reacts upon it's mind and spirit
There are only few men, perhaps
! in this country half dozen, who
1 have taken up this work. They are
greatly in demand. They labor in all
Icities, except their own. They cannot
work there, where personal interest
might be suspected.
/ Business men are taking up and now
/ pushing along as never before the
/ movement to secure the planning of
l cities and towns. They realize that
lit is scientific not only in the goal
4 for which it strives. which is the best
i possible adjustment of a city TO the
work it has to do, but in it's perfectly
Isane method of trying to secure that
adjustment. 1t does not seriously con-
i Germ itself with purely ideal concep-
tons Prior to any suggestion. there
! is earnest consideration of the local
i contour lines, of the present street
/ plan, and of value of property. There
/ lis study of the topography, OF the
Waterways, of the character of the
/ tributary country, of the natural
lscenery of the environs, of the present
railroad facilities. The problem is now
/ best to fit that particular city In that
particular place to the special work
which that city may do-man-building,
/ physically. mentally, and morally, in
Istead of Misunderstanding, being inter
{preted as one phase of the city's work
because of this dependence on local
Iconditions the city plan problem In no
1 two communities is the same.
The attitude of the business COM
/ immunity toward this movement is a rec
ignition that merely to improve one
foff1ce system and sales department, to
II r~~4 r,F1rrl m
trade and try to hold it as well as the
Fold, does not comprise all the possible
breadth of successful business and IN
1ustry; and that it falls far short OF
Icomprising the whole of life. Business
|acunaen recognizes that to increase the
Eeh1ciency of labor by lettering the en-
Ep1oyee's physical and social condition
for the true problem is not one OF
{housing only, but of home-building;
Ethat to facilitate the ready movement
1 OF merchandise within and without the
Lofty; that to increase the field of sales
{by 50 adding to the community's at
Effectiveness that it shall grow in pop
|ulatfon, is wise. Common sense per-
[ceives that truly to beautify ones
home, one cannot limit ones self to the
BARROW lot ON which is the house in
which one sleeps, since one really lives
mot in the house alone but in the town.
so are joining in the movement all
|condftions of men and women, and
those at first most doubtful of 1T are
<noW its staunchest champions. And
because for success there is required
u wide spread cooperation, the very
|making of the plans results in
tErowth of civic pride and civic spirit.
these are one of the first, but unlock
+ I'd for, products of city-planning; and
[athwart the frightening history of the
|moy ement gleam, in increasingly
|countless numbers, shining instances
|of public spirit and personal self-Sac-
|rifce- 1t has come to pass that they
|1Who reveal a city's improvement pos
liabilities, reveal also a people to them
Ieelves-