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fitness, convenience, definiteness, 
study and skill in adapting needs to 
conditions, forethought to meet fu- 
ture demands of traffic, and so on. 
All this leads up to, and in fact in 
many respects is part and parcel of 
the great subject of city planning in 
general, a most complicated one, and 
in the case of great growing cities, 
never ending, for it is most certainly, 
true that no comprehensive plan can 
be made at any given time which will 
solve for all time the problems of 
the great cities’ growth. These are 
constantly changing and must be as 
constantly modified. Any right study 
of this great question, while it may 
solve some particularly important im- 
mediate need, as for example that of 
PLAN OF A REAL ESTATE ALLOTjMENT AT SANTA BARBARA. CAL. 
squares and playgrounds brings with 
it the problem of connecting park- 
ways involving much careful thought 
as to location and details of grades 
and so on. Perhaps the banks of a 
hitherto neglected sluggish stream 
until now an unsightly dumping 
ground, can be transformed by care- 
ful design into beautiful parkways. 
Never has this been better done than 
in the case of the “Riverway,” a part 
of Boston's parkway system leading 
from the city proper to Franklin 
Park. Beautiful and natural as this 
all appears now, there is hardly a line 
or bit of vegetation, except the older 
trees, that has not been placed by the 
hand of man where we now see it. 
Fifteen or twenty years ago this part 
of the town was one of the ugliest 
sights immaginable. A brackish 
stream struggled along through the 
tangled masses of sedges and swamp 
land. Now it has the beauty of the 
most restful park, hut every particle 
of it is the result of design. This is 
not landscape gardening, but land- 
scape architecture, the work of a 
“master artisan in matters pertaining 
to land.” 
Real estate allotments and new res- 
idential town sites offer vital and in- 
teresting fields, of endeavor for the 
landscape architect. Here we may 
get much that is helpful in the way 
of suggestion from the present day 
work in these lines being done in 
England and Germany. But these 
so-called English garden cities and 
the German suburlian townsite de- 
velopments can again be copied only 
in the principles involved. These are 
the right placing and design of a civic 
center and the grouping of public 
buildings thereabout and may make 
provision for other peculiar needs, 
must be relatively tentative and must 
by constant effort and study of pro- 
posed schemes be kept up to date. 
Certain right principles, however, can 
be laid down; further extension, for 
example, of the vicious gridiron sys- 
tem of streets may be stopped. Effi- 
cient control of suburban growth may 
be placed in intelligent hands and not 
allowed to go on at the merest whim 
of property owners. 
In many of these matters the 
trained landscape architect can be of 
greatest service in an advisory capac- 
ity. Modern city planners are realiz- 
ing more and more that the first es- 
sentials are practicability, fitness and 
convenience, and that the beauty 
sought must be as a resultant of all 
these, not adjunct, not something to 
be embroidered on, but an intrinsic ' 
part of them. Mr. Olmsted has well * 
expressed this in a recent address. 
“The kind of beauty most to be ; 
sought in the planning of cities is j 
that which results from seizing in- 
stinctively with a keen and sensitive 
appreciation the limitless opportuni- i 
ties which present themselves in the i 
course of the most rigorous practical ^ 
solution of any problem.” This is 
true landscape architecture applied : 
to city planning, and it must not be ; 
forgotten that it must all be sup-: 
ported by the strong, high minded i 
public opinion of any community in i 
order to result in any marked degree 
to the city’s good. I 
As an instance of the feeling for' 
the necessity of something of this j 
sort and of the growing sentiment 1 
UEAI. ESTATE ALLOTMENT AT BEVERLY, MAS'S. 
Stephen Child, Landscape Arcli. 
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