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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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and painting will be included in an-other great class. Heating and plumbing will be taken up in a separateclass. While the writer will endeavor to cover these various classes with asmuch thoroughness as possible, he will depend upon the responses fromothers to supply the most helpful matter needed to make the discussion ofthe question of real value. Some manufacturers have already done much toward putting the datarelating to their products into convenient form for the use of the specifica-tion writer and have made a serious efifort to supply the kind of data needed.The results of these efi^orts afford suggestions which should not be over-looked in any discussion having for its purpose the improvement of themanufacturers literature in general from the standpoint of the specificationwriter. With these exceptions the need for improvement is great. If theneeds of the specification writer can be made clear the manufacturer willbenefit as well as everyone else. 90 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER
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THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER 91 The Lack of Houses* By ARTHUR GLEASON II.—REMEDIES(Concluded from the September issue of The Architect and Engineer, page 98.) IT is to meet such a need that the English Garden City idea was projected. TheGarden City is a self-contained community with its own industries, landowned in common, density of population limited, and the community sur-rounded by a belt of agricultural land. Building Material.—Building materials (in all grades of building) have ad-vanced to 136 per cent above pre-war levels. This is connected with theforestry situation and the tariff. There is a scarcity of lumber, monopolyprices upon it, and a protective duty (in spite of downward revisions) onimportations. There are tariff restrictions on such building material as hollowtile. The sabotage of labor affects the price of every item. The sabotage ofbusiness men is equally in evidence. If the situation were to grow acute enough,with angry, dispossessed tenants, unhealthy slum-dwe

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