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SHADE-TREES IN TOWNS AND CITIES 



of ideal width for residential cities. This width can be 

 divided into a roadway thirty feet wide and sidewalks fif- 

 teen feet wide. A 6-foot planting-strip can be provided on 



Fig. 3. — Layout of a street eighty feet wide. 



a sidewalk of such width, as shown in Fig. 2. A residence 

 street eighty feet wide may have a roadway forty feet in 

 width and sidewalks twenty feet wide. The sidewalk may 

 be divided into an 8-foot lawn-strip, an 8-foot sidewalk, 

 and a 4-foot strip between the walk and the fence-line, as 

 shown in Fig. 3. A residence street one hundred feet wide 



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FlG. 4. —Layout of = street one hundred feet wide: two rows of trees and a 

 parking space for shrubs in centre. 



