28 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE. 



CHAPTER III. 



LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE APPLIED TO THE ARRANGE- 

 MENT OF TOWNS. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 



INCIDENT TO THE WORK. RECTANGULAR ARRANGE- 

 MENT OBJECTIONABLE EVEN ON LEVEL SITES. 



ILLUSTRATED BY REFERENCE TO CHICAGO. 



IF I have succeeded in showing that even in the 

 arrangement of a private estate comprising only 

 a few acres, there is abundant room for the exer- 

 cise of practical knowledge and skill in the application t>f 

 the principles of landscape architecture, no argument 

 will be needed to prove that very much more intricate 

 and elaborate problems must present themselves when 

 the area is enlarged, and the tastes, interests and future 

 wants of great multitudes are to be provided for in the 

 laying out of a town or city. 



The existence of sanitary, economic and esthetic laws 

 which should govern the arrangement of cities, is abun- 

 dantly proved by the penalties which have so often been 

 paid for their transgression. We cannot plead ignorance 

 in excuse for their violation, and upon us more than any 

 pre-existing nation devolves the duty of their further 

 development and application. 



The opening of the lines of railroad across the conti- 

 nent has developed so much that was unexpected in the 



