Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-13
To Build a Model City.
That the Idea Now Agtang Governments By the Time
1t Is Realized the City May Be Out Of Date.
Copyright, 1879

interested
various governments including and that of the Kaiser
and the King of England plan build a modern inter
national city to cost hundred million dollars
The really seriously discussed sites have been
suggested the New Jersey coast the of Holland
Hague the Mediterranean between Cannes and Monte
the Neuchae Switzerland at St. German
just outside of Paris the Sea of Mamora CONSTANT
nope and other places
Discuss with your family what YOU would call model city
and how you would build it. you had hundred millions
spend
We inclined think that impossible to con-
stuct pleasing city with unlimited money just i'm
possible to construct pleasing language
language a city is GROWTH OR AN EVOLUTION
LIKE AN INDIVIDUAL.
The best that humanity improve the individuals
and the cities that exist
Atlanta has accomplished wonders in the way building
rising the very ashes into great metrop
Oils of promise
Berlin has done perhaps than any other city exis
tence in the way of general improvement
San Francisco a world in her sudden up
rising from the fire. but it is not city for the City
Is THE SPIRIT OF THE CITIZENS that spirit
Fire could destroy it,
Alexander the Great planned a really
tOn of model city and piece of gigantic self gIorcaton
His modest scheme statue of himself
mountain of statue that the ousretched arm
would support wide bouevards and aqueducs AND THE CITY
BE BUILT IN THE PALM OF THE STATUE s HAND.
That notion Of building city and having the city the palm
of your hand worthy of Alexander might
rled he mad combined with
THE POWER TO RULE HIMSELF-that is say in plain
guage he could have kept from getting drunk getting
drunk exposed him to disease and disease killed him.
statue holding city in its hand not completed
If the nations should combine build model city would
be very interesting very pretty
But single villa perohed 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 Tourbe perohed on
rock and overlooking the Mediterranean interest
ing than forty model cities.
As matter of fact the city otherwise as we now
know it, will in our humble opinion before long be only
like the nest of the that used to lay eggs big your
market basket! the colonies of beavers
The flying machine will the end of the city for
ing purposes.
The day is not far distant when what city
will be great Office building gigantic factory to which
the workers will fly morning their separate homes on
the hills and the plains far distant from which they fly
at night-like sea gulls flying to and from their work
Men have gathered in cities because walking painful and
travel slow Human beings living will see the workers of
the humble kind travel hundred miles twenty minutes or
less from their little houses their little patch of ground to
the big industrial beehive city in which their will be
done.
The city will be building perhaps mile or more high with
landings at various attitudes.
The late Paul Morton president of the Equitable Life Assur
Society used to talk about tearing building
which has since burned down. and building another building
said that he afraid being laughed at he would GER
ainly plan for landing place flying machines
Those living will see such towers and many of them
They will the day when all and women will 90 to
their work THROUGH THE ROOF INSTEAD OF FROM THE
GROUND FLOOR
The high hills abandoned will covered 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
want to make money for your great grandch
den buy hill tops cheap They will be estate before
very long.