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that the existence of the special social element thus typified gives one 

 of the many assurances that such a scheme as the proposed parkway 

 neighborhood would he successful, if judiciously carried out within 

 the lines suggested, before the demand is more or less perfectly met 

 in some other locality. 



It is clear that the house lots facing on the proposed parkway 

 would be desirable, and we assume that the most profitable arrange- 

 ment would be to make them, say 100 feet wide, and of the full 

 depth between two streets, convenient sites for stables being thus 

 provided. The usual effect of such a plan of operations would be an 

 occupation of the rear street by houses of inferior class, and it is 

 with a view of avoiding any such unsatisfactory result that the design 

 is extended over four blocks of ground. If the two outermost streets 

 are widened to 100 feet, and side-walks,' shaded by double rows of 

 trees, introduced in connection with them, the house lots on these 

 streets will be but little inferior to those immediately facing the 

 parkway, for they also will be of unusual depth, and will be supplied 

 with stable lots that can be entered from the street already men- 

 tioned, which should be made suitable for its special purpose, and 

 with the idea that it is only to be occupied by such buildings as may 

 be recjuired in connection with the large lots which are intended to 

 be arranged throughout back to back, with the stable street between 

 them. 



Thus, so far as this arrangement should be extended, there would 

 be a series of lots adapted to be occupied by detached villas, each in 

 the midst of a small private garden. This arrangement would offer 

 the largest advantages possible to be secured in a town residence, 

 and there is no good reason why they should not be of a permanent 

 character. With the modern advantages for locomotion which 

 would be available,'the departure from the old-fashioned compact- 

 ness of towns might be carried to this extent, in that part of them 

 devoted to residences, without any serious inconvenience. The un- 

 wholesome fashion of packing dwelling-houses closely in blocks 

 grew, as we have shown, out of the defensive requirements of old 

 towns ; it may possibly be necessary to continue it under certain 

 circumstances, as, for the reasons already indicated, on the island of 

 New York, but where there is no necessary boundary, either natural 

 or artificial, to the space which is to be occupied by buildings, as is 

 the case with Brooklyn, it is, to say the least, unwise to persist in 

 arrangements which will permanently prevent any indulgence of 

 this kind. 



Those who availed themselves of the opportunity here proposed to 



