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Title: City planning progress in the United States, 1917
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: American Institute of Architects. Committee on Town Planning Ford, George B. (George Burdett), 1879-1930 Warner, Ralph F
Subjects: City planning Cities and towns
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Journal of the American Institute of Architects
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s are used as socialcenters; many fountains have been installed in parks andschoolgrounds and lighting and trolley wires have beenplaced underground in the central districts and in alleys,and the like. Bridgeport Connecticut Bridgeport had a population of 115,000 in 1914; todayit has a population of over 175,000, an increase ot over60,000 in two years. Perhaps the nearest thing to a pre-cedent for this remarkable growth was the case of Boulogne,France, in the Napoleonic era. The phenomenal growth otthe latter town, as in the case ot Bridgeport, more than acentury later, was due to the manufacturing of arms andammunition, but the significant point of difference betweenBoulogne and Bridgeport is that the Connecticut cityintends to hold her gain by comprehensive city planningand is enlarging herself tremenduously by building anddeveloping on a permanent basis. One Million Dollars for Improved Dwellings.—TheBridgeport Chamber of Commerce was recently organized CITY PLANNING PR0(;RKSS 23
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Bridgeiort.—Biriis-Eye View of Proposeii Civic Group, IikUuIiiil; .1 Siti_ tor the City Hall, Post Office, Iirc Hcaiiini.irtcrs,Library, and Other Buildings. The Library is the central feature in this view. Two of the intersecting streets are important downtown thoroughtares, which it isproposed to widen. by all the business meti ot the city—manuhicturers, mer-chants, and bankers—to steer the city in the way it shouldgo it something more than a war boom, a prosperity flash-in-the-pan, is to come from the development of the lasttwo years. The most tangible, perhaps, the most sociallyvital thing that this Chamber has accomplished so far isthe organization of the Housing Committee, incorporated with a capital ot 5i,000,000, to see that there is as muchcare and skill and thought for the future put into thebuilding ot the homes as into the construction ot the manyacres of industrial plants. In addition, the city has justhad a bond issue of 12,275,000, something unprecedentedin the hi

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