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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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first appropriation of$30,000 having been made for the work of their new Zoning Commission, nowbeing appointed, during the balance of this year. THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 101 GETTING RESULTS IN CITY PLANNING Detroit with a City Plan Commission that virtually controls the wholephysical development of the city, and is said to have more power than any othercommission in the country, has evolved a comprehensive city plan, on whichmuch headway has been made, T. Glenn Phillips, consultant to the commission,announced in a discussion of Detroits progress. This Commission outlined apark system plan as a resuh of which $10,000,000 in bonds was voted last year,which will establish an elaborate system of playgrounds and playfields, and hasmade a complete map of the city property of Detroit to prevent the city con-demning for its own use some of its own property, as had actually occurredinsome cases. Out of 86 projects submitted by the Commission to City Council,72 have been passed, he explained.
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:•> :i^o^^=i:^fF:-^iig- -- :■ GARDEN COURT GARAGE, HOLLYWOODDesigned by Frank Meline Awarded honorable mention as anotable example of Architecture inLos Angeles by the recent Jury. 102 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER RESULTS DUE TO ADEQUATE APPROPRIATIONS FOR CITY PLAN COMMISSIONS The great practical results being obtained from city planning in Easterncities can largely be traced to those commissions which have been suppliedwith adequate budget appropriations by their city councils. The following recentbudgets are typical. They were given me by the delegates of these cities and arefor the making of plans and educational work of the City Plan Commission only,including employment of expert help, secretary, draftsman, stenographer, print-ing, supplies, etc. RECENT APPROPRIATIONS FOR CITY PLANNING COMMISSIONS Detroit (population estimated 900,000) appropriated $50,000 for 1919 and$42 000 for 1920; St. Louis (population estimated 775,000) appropriated$25,500 for 1917-18, $24,270 for 1918

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