Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-13
To Build a Model City.
That Is the Idea Now Agitatng Governments By the Tin
1t Is Realized the City May Be Out Of Date.

The sculptor Christian Andersen has interested
governments including and that Of the Kaiser
and the King of England in plan to build modern inter
national city cost a hundred million dollars
The really seriously discussed and sites have been
suggested New Jersey coast the of Holland The
Hague the Mediterranean between Cannes and Monte Carlo
shore Lake Neuchate Switzerland at ST German
just outside of Paris in the Sea of Mamora 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 to
spend
We inclined think that would impossible
pleasing city with unlimited money just it is i'm
possible to construct a pleasing language
language a city is GROWTH OR AN EVOLUTION
LIKE AN INDIVIDUAL.
The best that humanity improve 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 perhaps than any other city exs
tence in the way of general Improvement
San Francisco marvel of the world in her sudden up
rising from the fire. but it 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 combina-
ton of model city and piece of gigantic self glorhcaton
His modest scheme cut statue of himself out of solid
mountain Of rock statue vast that the ousretched
would support wide boulevards and aqueducts AND THE CITY
BE BUILT IN THE PALM OF THE STATUES HAND.
That notion building city and having the city in the palm
of your hand worthy of Alexander He might have
red out the plan he had combined with the rule others
THE POWER TO RULE HISELF-that is to say in plain Ian
guage he could have kept from getting drunk The getting
drunk exposed him disease and disease killed him. and the
statue holding city in its hand was not completed
the nations should combine build model city would
be very interesting very pretty.
But single villa perched high walls above deep
cut street Rome would supply food to the
human imagination than the entire model city.
And little village La Tourbie perched a
rock and overlooking the Mediterranean would be interest
ing than forty model cities
As matter of fact the model city otherwise
know it, will humble opinion before long be only
like the nest of the that used to lay eggs big your
market basket, or the colonies of beavers.
The flying machine will the end of the city for dwell
ing purposes.
The day far what we now call the city
will be great office building with gigantic factory which
the workers will fly in the morning from their separate homes
the hills and the plains far distant and from which they will
at night-ile gulls flying to and from their work.
Men have gathered in cities because walking painful and
travel slow. Human beings living will the workers
the humble kind travel hundred miles twenty-five
less from their little houses and their little patch ground to
the big industrial beehive city which their will be
done.
The city will be building perhaps or more high with
landings at various attitudes
The late Paul Morton president the Equitable Asur
Society used to talk about tearing building
which has burned down. and building another building
said that ne not afraid OF being laughed at he would
tainy plan tower for landing place for flying machines
Those living will see such towers and many of them
They will the day when all and will go 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 will
vanish and in material way civilization will begin
you want to make money for your great great grandch
dren buy hill tops cheap They will be estate before
very long