102 DISCUSSION. 



Secondly, Non-Official Buildings. — Prior to taking any steps 

 with regard to colleges, art galleries, museums or libraries, and 

 before any provision can be made for a non-official population, 

 some determination must be arrived at as to the likelihood of 

 others than the Members of the Senate and House of Represen- 

 tatives — (a) taking up a permanent residence in the district, or 

 (b) paying occasional visit to the city. A permanent non-official 

 population can only grow under one or both of two heads. In 

 the first case the mineral, agricultural or forest resources of the 

 district may be of a character to warrant and favour the establish- 

 ment of manufactories, and the position of the city as a centre of 

 trade may favor the economical distribution of its goods; then 

 an industrial population may be reckoned on. Or the site may 

 have such beautiful salubrious and economical attractions as to 

 lead to the city becoming a resort for families of means. 



It is necessary to consider in any selected site whether any of 

 its natural features should be emphasised or suppressed. For 

 example, a foreground of water, whether river, lake, or creek, 

 although insignificant in the original landscape, might be so 

 altered by embanking and terracing as to become a characteristic 

 feature of the city. 



As regards the relative merits of a rectangular hexagonal or 

 radial and circumferential street system; nothing could posibly 

 be settled beforehand, about a site that will in all probability be 

 in hilly country. The only safe rule is that which provides that 

 there should be the shortest practicable routes between the most 

 important centres. In old cities we find straight cuts being con- 

 tinually made, with such an object, through slum districts. If 

 there is only one prominent elevation on the site, it should no 

 doubt be crowned either by the Citadel (if there is to be one) or 

 by the Capitol buildings without the Citadel. There should be 

 plenty of park and garden surroundings, and if the main centre 

 is too elevated for direct radial roads of approach, then spiral 

 avenues may be necessary. If there are lesser or subordinate 

 elevations, then other State or prominent buildings should crown 



