The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-02

The committee now arrived NJ measures
to prevent congestion not ~ turope hut
~ New Work. IL deCid"d On nine as
essential
renem"nts must he smaller and yards
larger
Rooms must hs larger
Land must 10 kept availahly chsap
New methods ~ TAXATION must he
adopted
The law regarding ov"rcrowdinE must
he enforced
The tenement house law should encour-
age the Con~t ruction ~ low tenements.
The city should acquire land for its pur
poses carly. before speculation increases
IL cost
Population must he more generally dis
tribu'ed
Living wages must 10 pad
Some ~ the~" measures are self-eSplan-
atory
But how may land he kept availably
cheap The committee says by restrict
ing the height ~ buildings and Increasing
yard areas and by such a heavy progres-
sive tax upon the decrease in the land
valu. a. " M prevent the sale 81 land nj
specIlaflv. prices III" land specula-
tors price ~ based on anticipates CON
gestion or demand The wage earners
can y,dy that price and 80 are neces-
sartIy cunge-tad But the people who
can AFFORD - paw the speCtIlRtor profit
must he stopped from dong 40
be pu' N operation whereby accumulated
wealth m land shall pay the expenses NJ
government now horne by the wage
earner-
There are several methods nv winch
the CIty could al ono" secure all the land
~ VIII need for fifty years 10 come Excess
condemnation ~ tho European method
\ perman"np condemnation court ~ more
likely 10 com" into existence. The city
can Of ooIrs@ buy IN the open market. hut
that plan IL the least feaEibl"
Whom tho COmmIttes says that -popu-
ia'iOn must he more generally distributed
u doesn't necessarily indulge IN a glitter.
ing generality. What - meant ia that
immigrants must b" mainly got without
New York and that the European zone
system ought 10 he entered upon. sup
posa Il were required that all factories
hereafter built ~ Manhattan should ba
lodged west 81 broadway and south of
Thirty, fifth street or that no ten.-
Tnents should he erected on Staten Island
or that nothing hut tenenents should ne
erected on the Fast Side Transit facili-
ties would certainly AZ once he adapted
90 The new order 81 things and y certain
meihod would gradually Obtain m the
hodgepodge which now sIpoilS residence
se,Sion and business district alike IBIS
regarding all s.rthetIC considerations the
unitarian argument cannot entirely he
ignored
You can hardly be Interested ~ the
Urob"m ~ '"ngTs't"h. w. causes ami
cure without caring Honsw haf for the
cOu@t ructINe phase beyond ~ the period
- city planning CITY planning II has
been said N municipal conservation
Perhaps thar - n"ar enough 10 d~flni-
ton
What - really meant and Intended
by city planning. however. ~ tho physical
changes that shall help cure congestion
and prevent return ~ uVTyCrowdinr
NJ least In several generations CITY
planning - work for the civil engineer
guided only Ivy utile consitierai ionr
Tho Fs'hetiC side ~ u ~ easily att.Dded
To after pick and transit are through
the physical task
New York has no city plan I, viii
he peculiarly difficult IN make 1ne because
Of the Eve horoughH shall they I've
treated a. = whole ~ INDEPENDENTLY
The independent plan seams hest m the
case Of Richmond. Manhattan and The