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Title: Charles Eliot, landscape architect : a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles W. (Charles William), 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape architects
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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hisroad. Similarly no decorative planting in the few corners ofthe Nahant streets which are not gravel can hide the obviousfact that the streets are wrongly placed and wrongly shaped.Nahant is rich and strong, and whatever her voters will to docan be done. The towns case seems to me to call for radi-cal treatment. It is for the voters to determine whether thepainful but beneficial operation shall be performed now, whenit will hurt and cost comparatively little, or later, when itmust hurt and cost much. As palliatives for the present con-dition of things, I recommend: — 1st. The burial of the wires on the Long Beach, the cor-rection of the road lines there, and the planting of a stripalong each side of the road with dwarf bushes. 2d. The acquisition by the town of outlying points likeCastle Rock, of beaches, and of sea front generally, so far asmay be possible. 3d. The opening of shore roads to connect the outer endsof the present streets wherever and whenever such action ispossible.
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CHAPTER XVII ADEQUATE OPEN SPACES FOR URBAN POPULATIONS,AND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF COAST SCENERY Meantime there is one duty obvious to us all: it is that we shouldset ourselves to guard the natural beauty of the earth: we ought tolook upon it as a crime, an injury to our fellows, only excusable be-cause of ignorance, to mar that natural beauty which is the propertyof all men. — MoBKiS. Charles had not been in practice two years before he be-gan to study the problem of securing for American towns andcities an adequate number of public squares, gardens, andparks. He had seen in Europe how liberal a provision ofthis sort was there made for the health and enjoyment ofurban populations; and he had learnt that the provisionof public grounds made by American towns and cities wascomparatively scanty. To demonstrate this neglect of one ofthe most important public interests was his first contributionto the discussion of the subject. The following article, whichappeared in Garden and Forest in Oc

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