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and a certain amount of formality and regard for con- 

 venience should, on the other hand, reach over from 

 the street designs to that of the park as well as the lawn 

 and dooryard. It should not be confusing to speak of a 

 whole city as an actual park, or of a great park as, in a 

 perfectly legitimate sense, the abode of a community, 

 that is a city developed on comprehensive lines. The 

 city planner, therefore, should make his standpoint of 

 design that of the community and thus evolve a com- 

 prehensive plan that allows due regard to the limitations 

 of the place and of the residents. On the other hand, 

 the formality, as understood in common parlance, is 

 required for its distinctly human quality to take its 

 proper place in the park and on the street and in the 

 city lawn or yard. The park idea should pervade the 

 city everywhere throughout its streets, and particularly 

 around its residences and public buildings. In other 

 words, if I may be allowed to repeat the same idea in 

 other words, a city should be looked upon, if ideally 

 laid out, as a great public park in which a community 

 is to live and move and have its being. 



The city planner, therefore, should make his stand- 

 point of design that of the community and thus evolve 

 for his city a unified artistic creation realizing the ideal 

 of both the architect and landscape architect. In order 

 to illustrate the application of these ideas I will venture 

 to refer to a plan for redesigning an important part of 

 the city of Washington made in 1900 for the Chief 

 Engineer of the United States and submitted to the 

 Speaker of the House of Representatives by the Secre- 



