RESIDENTIAL PARKS 



THE arrangement of lots on a territory that is 

 intended to be divided for residential purposes 

 amounts, in the minds of many, to merely mak- 

 ing lots of three-quarters or half an acre, or less, as the 

 demand may require, by running parallel lines, crossing 

 them at right angles ; the parallelograms, with a view to 

 tempting purchasers of small means, being sometimes 

 reduced to the normal city lot, size 25 x 100 feet, the 

 roads being worked in between the lots in the same 

 straightforward, simple fashion. This method of laying 

 out villa sites and residential parks has the advantage of 

 economy and simplicity, and the territory certainly 

 divides up into small parcels conveniently ; but how about 

 such a simple arrangement from an aesthetic point of 

 view, when the ground is rolling, or even mildly precip- 

 itous? Is it not to a proper plan what the row-of-boxes- 

 pierced-with-holes style of building is to true architect- 

 ure? 



There are such things as steep grades that need to 

 be overcome, and that, consequently, force roads into 

 curious and perplexing curves. The location of the 

 houses in each lot is, moreover, a matter that requires 

 skill and special knowledge ; in other words, experience 



