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be kept up to date. Certain right principles, however, can 

 be laid down; further extension, for example, of the vicious 

 gridiron system of streets may be stopped. Efficient control 

 of suburban growth may be placed in intelligent hands and 

 not allowed to go on at the merest whim of property owners.^ 

 In many of these matters the trained landscape architect | 

 can be of greatest service in an advisory capacity. Modern 



PLAN OF A REAL ESTATE ALLOTMENT AT SANTA BARBARA, CAL. 



city planners are realizing more and more that the first essen- 

 tials are practicability, fitness and convenience, and that the 

 beauty sought must be as a resultant of all these, not an ad- 

 junct, not something to be embroidered on, but an intrinsic 

 part of them. Mr. Olmsted has well expressed this in a re- 

 cent address. "The kind of beauty most to be sought in 

 the planning of cities is that which results from seizing in- 



