Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-13
To Build a Model City.
That Is the Idea Now Agtatng Governments, By the Time
It's Realized the City May Be Out Of Date
Copyright.

The American sculptor CHRISTIAN Andersen has interested
various governments including our own and that OF the Kaiser
and the King of England plan to build a modern inter
national city to cost a hundred million dollars.
The is really seriously discussed and sites have been
suggested the New Jersey coast the of Holland The
Hague the Mediterranean between Cannes and Monte Carlo
on the shore of Lake Neuchae Switzerland at st. German
just outside of Paris the Sea of Marmora CONSTANT
nople and other places
Discuss with your family what YOU would call model city
and how you would build it if you had hundred millions
spend.
We inclined to think that would be impossible
sruCt pleasing city with unlimited money just it is i'm
possible to construct a new pleasing language.
A language r a city is GROWTH OR AN EVOLUTION
LIKE AN INDIVIDUAL.
The best that humanity do is to improve the individuals
and the cities that exist.
Atlanta has accomplished wonders in the way building
rising upon the very ashes of into great metrop
oils of promise
Berlin has done more perhaps than any other city in exis-
tence in the way of general improvement
San Francisco marvel of the world in her sudden up
rising from the fire. but it is city for the City
is THE SPIRIT OF THE CITIZENS and that spirit there
Fire could not destroy it.
Alexander the Great planned really remarkable combna-
ton of model city and piece of gigantic self Qualification
His modest scheme to cut statue of himself of solid
mountain of rock statue that the oustretched
would support wide bouevards and aqueducs AND THE CITY
BE BUILT IN THE PALM OF THE STATUES HAND.
That notion of building city and having the city in the palm
of your hand worthy Alexander He might
d out the plan he had combined with the power others
THE POWER TO RULE HIMSELF-hat to say plain Ian
guage he could have kept from getting drunk The getting
drunk exposed him to disease and disease killed him. and the
statue holding city in its hand not completed.
If the nations should combine to build model city would
be very interesting, very pretty
But single villa perohed high stone walls above deep
cut street of Rome would supply food to the
human Imagination than the entire model city.
And queer little village like La Tourbie perched on
be
ing than forty model cities
As a matter of fact the model city otherwise as we now
know it. will in humble opinion before long be only
DRY like the lay eggs as big as your
market basket or the colonies of beavers.
The flying machine will the end of the city dwell
ing purposes
The day is far distant when we now call the city
will be great building with gigantic factory to which
the workers will fly the morning from their separate
the hills and the plains far distant and from which they will fly
at nght-hke sea gus flying to and from their work
Men have gathered cities because walking painful
travel slow Human beings living will the workers of
the humble kind travel hundred miles twenty
less from their little houses and their little patch ground to
the big industrial beehive city in which work will be
done
The city will be building perhaps mile or more high with
landings at various attitudes
The Paul Morton president the Equitable Life Aur
Society used to talk about tearing the old building
which has burned down. and building another building He
said that he not afraid of being laughed he
Iany plan tower Tor landlng place lying machines
Those living will see such towers and many of them
They will the day when all women will 90 to
their work THROUGH THE ROOF INSTEAD OF FROM THE
GROUND FLOOR.
The high hills abandoned will be then with in
dividual palaces and model apartment houses
The city with its dirty dusty filthy, crowded streets will
vanish and in a material way civilization will begin
you want to make money for your great great grandch
drn buy hill cheap They will be choice estate before
very long.