Town Planning
Sir.—F. R. S. Yorke. F.R.1.8.A.. in "The Modern House.” says “On the Continent, and in Russia particularly, it appears the principle of grouping dwellings in large blocks with wide areas of garden intervening is superseding the garden-city type of development. . . . Yet so long as the town is unable to offer a healthy life in pleasant surroundings in flat dwellings that are of a very much better type than the existing, the villa will be built on the outskirts by the people who work in the city, but who escape after business hours from its dirt, ugliness, and noise.” Christchurch? In a new country, should “dirt, ugliness, noise” drive central inhabitants to the outskirts? Should flats designed for health and comfort not replace buildings removed from areas long predominantly residential, instead of by incongruous, noisy, unpleasant, dirty industry among homes?— COMPARISONS. December 4, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29071, 7 December 1959, Page 20
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