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1t Is Realized the City May Be Out of Date



various governments including and that of the Kaiser
and the King of England in plan to build modern inter
national city to cost a hundred million dollars.
The really seriously discussed sites
suggested the New Jersey coast the of Holland The
Hague the Mediterranean between Cannes and Monte Carlo
the Neuchatel in Switzerland German
just outside of Paris the Sea of Marmora CONSTANT
nope and other places
Discuss with your family YOU would call model city
and how you would build it you had hundred millions to
spend.
We inclined to think that would be impossible
sruct pleasing city with unlimited money just it i'm
possible to construct pleasing language.
language a city is GROWTH OR AN EVOLUTION
LIKE AN INDIVIDUAL.
The that humanity improve the individuals
and the cities that exist.
Atlanta has accomplished wonders the way building
rising upon the very ashes of into great metrop
oils of promise
Berlin has done perhaps than any other city in exs
in the way of general Improvement
San Francisco a of the world in sudden up
rising from the fire. but is not city for the City
is THE SPIRIT OF THE CITIZENS that spirit
Fire could not destroy it.
Alexander the Great planned really remarkable combina
ton of model city and piece of gigantic self gorfCaon
His modest scheme of himself solid
mountain of rock that oustretched
would support wide bOuevards and aqueducts 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 hand worthy of Alexander He might have
THE POWER TO RULE HIMSELF is to say 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 not completed
If city would
be very interesting very pretty
But single villa perched high walls deep
cut street in of Rome would supply food TO the
human imagination than the entire model city
And queer little village like La Tourbe perched
rock and overlooking the Mediterranean would be
ing than forty model cities.
As of fact the city otherwise
know it, will in humble opinion before long be only mem
DRY like the nest of the that used lay eggs big your
market basket the colonies of beavers
The flying machine will the end of the city for dwell
ing purposes
The day not far distant when what call city
will be great office building with gigantic which
will fly morning from their separate homes on
the hills and the plains far distant and from which they fly
at night-iHe guls flying to and from their work,
Men have gathered cities because walking painful
travel slow beings living see the workers of
the humble kind travel hundred miles twenty-five minutes or
less from their little houses their little patch ground to
the big industrial beehive city which will be
done
city building perhaps mile or more high with
landings at various attitudes,
The late Paul Morton president Equitable Life Assu
Society used to talk about tearing down the building
which has since burned down and building another building
said that afraid of being laughed at he would GER
tainly plan for landing place flying machines
Those living will 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 covered then with in
dividual palaces and model apartment houses.
The city with its dirty, dusty filthy crowded streets will
vanish and in material way civilization will begin
you want to make money for your great great grandch
drn buy hill cheap They will be estate before
very long.