TOWN PLANNING SCIENCE.
(To the Editor.) Sir, —There is a feature of town planning amendable to improvement—the nomenclature of thoroughfares, ways, bypaths, etc., is in a state of chaos. In this scientific age, something better ought to rule. Road, street, avenue, parade, boulevard, esplanade, terrace, circus, square, place, crescent, common, hill, walk, lane, alley, way : each have a distinctive suggestion of fitness, but are applied in haphazard fashion. The designation "road" is correctly npp'.ied to such thoroughfares as Manukau, Mt. Eden, Now North, Great North, and possibly to Ponsonby Road ; but Karangahape, Franklin, Jervois, Dominion, St. Andrew's Roads are " streets." In Mt. Eden there are a number of short streets, some even blind accommodation ways, that are dignified by the term " road." Other districts are possibly equal sinners. It may not be now practicable to change oldstanding names, but the future could see some gain from a more correct appreciation of word meanings.—l am. etc., THOS. DAWES.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 151, 27 June 1924, Page 7
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