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But we cannot expect, even if this objection were overcome, thai all 

 the inhabitants of a large town would go s<> far as the Park every day, 

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

 tin* fresh air. On the other hand we cannol say that tlic transportation 

 of merchandise sin mid be altogether interdicted in the domestic quarters 

 of m town, :is it is in a park, and as it now is through certain streets of 

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

 evidently desirable that every dwelling house Bhould be accessible by 

 means of suitable paved streets to heavy wheeled vehicles. 



NI.W ARRANGEMENTS DEMANDED I'.V EXISTING REQUIREMENTS. 



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

 points clearly towards the conclusion that the present street arrange- 

 ments of every large town will :it no very distant day require, not to lie 

 set aside, but to he supplemented, by a series of ways designed with ex- 

 press reference to the pleasure with which they may he 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 

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



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

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

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

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

 have pointed out will not eventually he 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. 



With reference to general commerce, Brooklyn must be considered as 

 a division merely of the port of Xew York. The city of New York is, 

 in regard to building space, in the condition of a walled town. Brook- 

 lyn is New York outside the walls. 



