The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-11-20
WOULD MAKE PARIS !
AS Big AS new YORK
and MORE BEAUTIFUL
Would Increase Area Of the City
From 10000 Acres to 100000
Acres, Including Much
Open Space.

Paris. Special: The project Of Marcel
Delaney, project of the Seine. entitled
l. Grand Paris" designed to maxi
the City Of Light rival New York as the
second largest city in the world, is the
most gigantic scheme, since Hauss-
mann made Paris a city beautiful with
a wonderful boulevard system at the
time Of Napoleon III, that has ever been
submitted to any municipality. The
plan would result in giving the city an
area of 100000 acres, instead of the
present 10000. and giving open spaces
Of $500 acres, or, if it included the
woods of Boulogue and Vincennes and
the forests bordering on the Seine, a.
900 acres.
TIL plan includes the widening of
certain streets. a restraint on the
height Of buildings, following the for
mula that the height SHOULD not ex-
coed the width of the street. INC the
disappearance Of novels and their dis
placement by cheap model houses, for
which the municipal ouncil he's al
ready voted $40, 900, 900. The public gar
dens. at present 81, will be increased to
1913.
Circle Of Garden Cities.
For the suburbs the plan is eve
more ambitious. for it will create out
circle of garden cities, following the
approaching destruction Of the fortifi-
cations and filling in Of the trenches.
which space will be utilized for parks
and lawns. Even further, The plan in
cludes the hills bordering the Seine.
Marine n Disc rivers, and also the
fields about Paris, making them i'm
mense gardens, all united and forming
a magnificent promenade. extending
over rs miles.
M. Delaney points out that he would
profit by the mistakes in the building
/ or Old Paris and ga fPp1J9 ri the ha911fv
OF the new. He says that the Paris
suburbs are growing faster than Paris,
and must not be allowed to do so at
random. Thu suburbs, which means
outside the Qualifications, are therefore
not now included in the population.
Paris had 260, 1000 inhabitants In 1861 and
1,200, 900 in 1911. In the last five years
the suburbs ave increased $50, 600.
while Paris HI only increased 1924, 600.
He goes on:
If this growth be not organized in
streets, defined by a central plan, the
railroads and gardens will be in 20
years the dishonor of France. but if
the plan be accomplished it will make
the population OF Paris rival that Of
New York.
Would Relieve Congestion.
The plan would relieve the present
great congestion Of Paris proper, where
there are nearly 200 Inhabitants to the
acre, while Berlin counts a third less.
and London only half. The plan would
also make Paris exceed London In num-
Der Of parks and open spaces.
M. Delaney has also pointed out that
the liberation of the space now occu-
pied by the Notifications will decrease
the cost, and he suggests the purchase
OF more ground than is needed for
promenades, as Its subsequent sale,
when the plan Is finished, at a greatly
increased price. would be a good in
vestment.
The plan is causing much discussion
in h press and diverse opinions. The
majority think it admirable and feas-
ible. A few are ironic and i~ncredulous
but it is pointed out by LIE Martin
which is enthusiastic, h a Haussman's
plans for a beautiful n hygienic Paris
were received with the same increduli.
ty and encouragement. and in 90 years
from 1850 to 1870, there were twice the
amount Of improvements made as tr
the previous 43 years.