SYLLABUS OF CIVIC PROBLEMS. 5 



Field Work. 



1. Study the plan of your own city. Use a map of the city. Your general 

 knowledge. State the defects that are developing and show how they 

 should be corrected before the city increases in size. Note where popu- 

 lation is becoming congested. How could it be prevented? 



a. Note how the congestion of street traffic might be prevented. 



b. Decide what streets to widen ; what new streets to open. 



c. AVhere should parks and plaj-grounds be located? Give reasons. 



d. How should the industries be localized? 



e. What restrictions should be placed upon Iniikling? 



f. What boulevards are desirable? 



g. How should a civic center be planned for? 



h. What defects in the railroad location? What provision for railroad cross- 

 ings? 

 i. Other changes. Keep in miu'l the ultimate gain to the city, 

 j. Where should new schoolhouses be built? 



References. 



Pupils' Readings. 



McVey, Frank L. "The Making of a Town." Ch. II, III. VII. 



Nida — "City. State and Nation." Ch. II. 



American City, G: 39S — "The Municipal Spirit." 



American City, 6: 71~> — Steiss, C. J. "Fort Wayne's Civic Awakening." 



American City, 7 : 503 — I'ratt, E. E. "Garden Cities in Europe." 



American City, 8 : 473 — Ford, Dr. James. "Some Fundamentals of Housing 



Reform." 

 American City, 8 : 422 — Diagrams. Prize Plans Labeled. 

 American City, 8: 19 — Nolan. .John. "The Factory and the Home." 

 American City. 9 : 310 — Bartlett. Dana W. "Torrance." 

 American City, 9 : 213 — "Fairfield, a Town with a Purpose. " 

 American City, 11 : 380 — Bartholomew, H. "Publicity and City Planning." 

 American City, 11: 38 — Cheney, Chas. H. "What the City Planning Exhil)its 



Have Accomplished in California." 

 American City, 12: 189— Ford. Geo. B. "City Planning and Real Estate." 

 American City, 12 : 40 — -"Development of a Town Civic Center." 

 Survey, 27 : 1203 — Jensen, Jens. "Regulating City Building.'' 

 Sunset, 30: 299 — Willard, W. AV. "Moving the Factory Back to the Land," 



Torrance, Cal. 

 American City, 12 : 241 — Pope, R. A. "Community Planning with Voluntary 



Restrictions." 

 American City, 12 : 379 — Adams, Thomas. "Scope for Municipal Activity Pend- 

 ing Town Planning Legislation." 

 For Student Teachers. 

 Nelson's Cyclopedia. 



Nolan, John. "Replanning of Small Cities." 

 Koester, Frank. "Modern City Planning and Maintenance." 

 Wackers. Manual of Plan of Chicago. 

 Annals of American Academy, 35: 287-96 — Crawford, A. W. "City Planning 



and Philadelphia Parks." 

 Bulletin No. 1 — Cheney, C. H. "What City Planning Commissions Can Do." 

 Annals of American Academy, .59 : 283 — Smith. J. Russel. "The Reconstructed 



City." 

 American City, 6: 4G4 — Childs, Stephen. "Landscape Architect and City Engi- 

 neer." 

 American City, 6: 557 — Ford, Geo. B. "Digging Deeper into City Planning." 

 American City, 6 : 733 — Nolan, John. "Improvement of a Country Town." 

 American City, 7: 517 — ^Tribus, I. I. "The Citv Economic." 



