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and be benefited by the walk, arc at the season <>f the year when it 

 would otherwise be mosl attractive, even greater, for they must follow 

 the heated flags and bear the reflected as well as the direct rays of the 

 sun. 



But we cannot expect, even If this objection were overcome, that all 

 the inhabitants of a large town would go so for as the Park every day, 

 or so often as it is desirable that they should take an agreeable stroll in 

 the fresh air. On the other hand we cannol say thai the transportation 

 of merchandise should be altogether interdicted in the domestic quarters 

 of a town, as it is in a park, and as it now is through Certain streets of 

 London and Paris during most hours of the day. On the contrary it is 

 evidently desirable that every dwelling house should be accessible by 

 means of suitable paved streets to heavy wheeled vehicles, 



NKW ARRANGEMENTS DEMANDED BY EXISTING REQUIREMENTS. 



It will he observed that each of the changes which we have examined 

 points (dearly towards the conclusion that the present street arrange- 

 ments of every large town will at no very distant day require, not to he 

 set aside, hut to be supplemented, by a series of ways designed with ex- 

 press reference to the pleasure with which they may be used for walk- 

 ing, riding, and the driving of carriages ; for rest, recreation, refresh- 

 ment, and social intercourse, and that these ways must he so arranged 

 that they will he conveniently accessible from every dwelling house and 

 allow its occupants to pass from it to distant parts of the town, as, for 

 instance, when they want to go to a park, without the necessity of 

 travelling for any considerable distance through streets no more con. 

 vehient for the purpose than our streets of the better class now are. 



We may refuse to make timely provisions for such purposes in our 

 suburbs, and wc may by our refusal add prodigiously to the difficulty 

 and the cost of their final introduction but it is no more probable, if 

 great towns continue to grow greater, that such requirements as we 

 have pointed out will not eventually be provided for than it was 

 two hundred years ago that the obvious defects of the then existing 

 street arrangements would continue to be permanently endured rather 

 than that property should be destroyed which existed in the buildings 

 by their sides. 



THE POSITION OF BROOKLYN. 



If we now take the case of Brooklyn we shall find that all the reasons 

 for an advance upon the standards of the street arrangements of the 

 last century which apply to great towns in general, are applicable to 

 her special situation with particular emphasis. 



