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Wacker’s manual of the plan of Chicago. Moody, Walter Dwight, 1874-1920. [Chicago, Printed by Calumet publishing company] 1916.
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WACKER’S MANUAL OF THE
PLAN OF CHICAGO
Municipal Economy
! Especially Prepared for Study in the Schools of Chicago
Auspices of the CHICAGO PLAN COMMISSION
HOTEL SHERMAN CHICAGO
BY WALT E R D . MO O D Y Managing Director, Chicago Plan Commission
SECOND EDITION
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70 WACKER’S MANUAL OF THE PLAN OF CHICAGO
CHAPTER XI
THE PLAN OF CHICAGO, ITS PURPOSE AND MEANING
The Plan of Chicago, to direct the future growth of this city along proper lines, is the greatest plan of any American city.
the past built according to a definite plan, aimed to avoid the crowding of large numbers of people into small areas. They were planned for ease of movement of merchandise and people from one part of the city to another. We modern people, owing to the advance in science during our times, have still another aim. This is to create and preserve conditions promoting
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CHICAGO. Plan of a Complete System of Street Circulation and System of Parks and Playgrounds,Presenting the City as an Organism in which all the Functions are Related One to Another. [Copyrighted by the Commercial Club.]
Modern people are realizing more and more each year that city planning is one of the most important problems which our cities must solve. This is true because the guid ing of the physical growth of a city along practical as well as beautiful lines is really fundamental. City planning underlies all commercial and social problems. Cities of tions.
public health. If a city is to continue to exist, its people must be healthy and its children robust. Commercially, city planning has to do with the regular arrangement of streets within a city. Its aim is to save time and effort in traffic between the various sec
Socially, city planning has to do
PURPOSE AND MEANING OF THE CHICAGO PLAN 71
with adequate provision for the public health. This is gained through the best location of parks and playgrounds and the opening to light and air of crowded housing districts. A proper city plan is the founda tion for all social and commercial advance. For people to continue healthy and happy, they must have proper houses in which to live. Adequate street facilities affect the housing problem, as people must be able to go quickly and easily to and from their homes and places of business. The Plan of Chicago solves our vital problems of congestion, traffic and public health. The completion of the plan will do away with crowding in the city and its streets and so promote the health and happiness of all. It will make traffic more convenient and so make it easier and cheaper to carry on business. Thus the wealth of the city and its people will in crease more rapidly than would otherwise be possible. The plan will give Chicago more and larger parks and playgrounds and better and lighter streets. Hence the whole people will be more healthy and better able to carry on the work of our great city. All over the world today, cities are grow ing as they never did before. Steam and electric transportation have made it easy to supply food for multitudes. Modern manufacturing methods draw large num bers of men together in cities to cheaply produce clothing, machinery and the varied supplies people need in their daily lives. No country in the world has given rise so rapidly to large cities as the United States. At the beginning of the civil war, only three per cent of the people of the United States lived in cities. Forty-six per cent of our people now live in large cities. Twelve per cent live in the three cities of New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.
