Garden Cities of To-morrowS. Sonnenschein & Company, Limited, 1902 - 167 pages |
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acres advantages agricultural estate agricultural land anxious average beautiful become better building capital carried Chap CHAPTER city ground considerable constructed cost crowded cities Crystal Palace debentures diagram economic effect enormous expenditure experiment factories fullest Garden City ground values grow growth hand Herbert Spencer houses individuals industrial investment J. S. Mill labour landlord landlord's rent landowners large cities larger live London County Council London School Board magnet ment Merrie England migration miles necessary notice organisation paid parks Parliament person population of London powers present principle pro-municipal problem produce profits proposed purchase purposes question railway enterprise rate-rent rates realise recognised reformers regard remedy represents revenue roads scarcely scheme schools secured sinking fund Sir Robert Peel slums social socialistic society square miles tenants tion Topolobampo town trade undertakings vested interests wealth forms whole
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Page 3 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 122 - Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil! My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.
Page 114 - He unroofs the houses, and ships the population to America. The nation is accustomed to the instantaneous creation of wealth. It is the maxim of their economists, "that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England, has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
Page 20 - I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant Land.
Page 15 - There are in reality not only, as is so constantly assumed, two alternatives — town life and country life — but a third alternative, in which all the advantages of the most energetic and active town life, with all the beauty and delight of the country, may be secured in perfect combination ; and the certainty of being able to live this life will be the magnet which will produce the effect for which we are all striving — the spontaneous movement of the people from our crowded cities to the bosom...
Page 103 - Separate ownership would merge into the joint-stock ownership of the public. Instead of being in the possession of individuals, the country would be held by the great corporate body — society.
Page 132 - The simple issue to be faced, and faced resolutely, is : ' Can better results be obtained by starting on a bold plan on comparatively virgin soil than by attempting to adapt our old cities to our newer and higher needs...
Page 110 - How can a man learn to know himself? By reflection never — only by action. In the measure that thou seekest to do thy duty shalt thou know what is in thee. But what is thy duty? The demand of the hour.
Page 59 - Whenever merchandise is received or delivered by a railway company at any siding or branch railway not belonging to the company, and a dispute arises between the railway company and the consignor or consignee of such merchandise as to any allowance or rebate to be made from the rates charged to such consignor or consignee in respect that the railway company does not provide station accommodation or perform terminal services...
Page 18 - Town and country must be married, and out of this joyous union will spring a new hope, a new life, a new civilization.