Evening journal., 1913-04-24
PLANNING
NEW CITIES
DR.. HaGemann, German Ex-
pert, Gives Ideas on Sub
ieCt to Wilmington
Audience
COMPARES TYPES
HERE AND ABROAD


DR.. Werner Hagemann Of Berlin.
Germany, who has made study of
city planning for years, delivered an
illustrated lecture on the subject in
the assembly room Of the DUPONT
building last evening TO a large num-
Der Of people among them being
members of the Chamber Of Com
merce under whose direction the lee
ture was given. President George w.
Sparks and others members of the
Street and Sewer Department, as
well as members Of the Board OF Park
Commissioners we're present
DR.. Hagcmann was introduced by
Josiah Marvel. president OF the Cham
ber OF Commerce, who referred to the
small but representative gathering,
which attested TO their interest in a
better citizenship. In opening his
address which was illustrated by lam
tern slides, Dr. Hagemann said he
had been well Impressed with what
he had seen of Wilmington during the
afternoon. especially the Brandywine,
Delaware avenue and Rockford Park,
and II other sections OF the city were
like these he feared he could not tell
local people much about planning a
city. Conditions here, he said. appear
ed TO be good owing TO the fact that
this city did not have a phenomenal
growth. Dr. !Iagemann said
zone Of the very best American
writer's on city-planning has advo-
Gated IN one of his articles German
methods i'm city-planning and in
order 10 do so he reviewed the idea
OF the best known German writer's on
the subject, using the drawings Of q
well known German publication. But
in advocating the German idea the
| American writer Internationally be-
came mixed in some manner in the
drawings, with the result that he
presented as good and worthy OF
( imitation the same drawing that the
3 German city -planner considered as
4 bad and what the German city-plan-
bad i'm the publication
spirit of fault-hnding with the Amer
lean writer, who did not notice the
/ difference. | simply wanted to state
the wide possible margin OF ditfer-
enco IN opinion between people who
/ try TO advocate the same idea In dif.
/ ferent countries"
/ Two Distinct Types.
I'm comparing the history OF cit,
planning in different cities Of Cont.
mental Europe with English an,
American cities, I sec two types o.
city-planninE; the one type as yol
find it In Continental Europe Is th'
spectacular type; the other type /
what ! might call Anglo-Saxon cit.
planning. which puts the idea of TIM
home 10 the front In the cities o
Continental Europe the home ha1
been sacrificed for the spectacular
type. Since the Seventeenth Centurl
more or less legitimate sometime
openly fraudulent, methods have
been used Ia order 70 get spec
tacular outlook, paying for IL by the
worst Kind of overcrOwding on high
valued land
paris az the Time OF the French
| Revolution was the most beautiful
city in the world. if YOU just speak
OF the artistic outlook OF It's streets
squares and residential sections, an,
/ II YOU omit the housing side alto
gcthcr. III. however. one cares tC
look into the housing question. into
the way the great mass Of people
were housed behind the most beauti
/ ful building lines into the so-calleC
/ Queen OF Cities the city of Paris, al
the time of the French Revolution
may be called one great slum. and tn,
Reign OF Terror practically was tho
( reign of the slum.
"The methods applied for city plan.
ming in Paris and other Continental
cities as followed during the Nine.
teenth Century we're pretty much
similar to the old Partisan city plan
ln fact, during my present stay In
| America | have been assured by
about a dozen different people thai
the city Of Berlin Is the prettiest IN
the world, its streets being clean ant
I truly spectacular. I only could repl,
every time that the average number
of people living In each Of the spec.
tacular houses in Berlin is a. and
added that though ! was a great ad-
mirer of spectacular streets ] declin
cd to admire them II the price paid
for them was crowding and higl
land values
The law OF 1909, authorizing IN,
city OF Paris to spend S1S000O. 600 fol
new spectacular improvements II
based on a report that gives us on'
OF the main reasons for this new ex
pcnditure-the desire TO please tn,
foreigners. Using the expression a
foreigner has made Paris. In near
ly every case TO please the foreigner
Is identical with pleasing the real es
tate operators. since spectacular i'm
provements confined 10 limited mon
opolized areas mean high land values
There is another and better con
ception Of city planning. making /
the expression Of the desire not 4
please the foreigner. but to please Tn
people who have to live and work II
the city and whose whole life chanc
depends upon the standard OF cit
and home planning prevailing in IN
I community"