28 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 



' stinctively with a keen and sensitive appreciation the limitless 

 opportunities which present themselves in the course of the 

 most rigorous practical solution of any problem." Thisistrue 

 landscape architecture applied to city planning, and it must 

 not be forgotten that it must all be supported by the strong, 

 high minded public opinion of any community in order to 

 result in any marked degree to the city's good. 



\ As an instance of the feeling for the necessity of something 

 of this sort and of the growing sentiment that the utterly 



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haphazard and thoughtless methods, or lack of methods, of 

 the past, must be abandoned and something better substi- 

 tuted, it is to be noted that in this country alone fully seventy 

 cities are engaged in more or less elaborate studies with this 

 purpose in mind. In Europe great city planning efforts are 

 going forward; staid old London is having its very vitals 

 renovated; Berlin is in the midst of similar upheavals, and 

 Paris, which we have been brought up to believe was nearly 

 perfect in this respect, is getting ready to spend untold mil- 

 lions for further improvements of this sort. 



