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Town Planning for Dover, N. J : Report to the Mayor and Common Council (Classic Reprint) download pdf

Town Planning for Dover, N. J : Report to the Mayor and Common Council (Classic Reprint) download pdf

Town Planning for Dover, N. J : Report to the Mayor and Common Council (Classic Reprint) by Arthur Coleman Comey
Town Planning for Dover, N. J : Report to the Mayor and Common Council (Classic Reprint)
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Author: Arthur Coleman Comey
Page Count: 38 pages
Published Date: 27 Sep 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781332205592
Download Link: Town Planning for Dover, N. J Report to the Mayor and Common Council (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Town Planning for Dover, N. J: Report to the Mayor and Common Council Two hundred years ago, when Dover was first settled (in 1713). and one hundred years ago, when its iron industry was attaining importance, and even fifty years ago, when the manufacturing development began to be felt, no plan was made for the growth of the town. One main street ran through the valley, and on this level floor a beginning was made of a gridiron system. In one place this was carried over the surrounding hillside, but for the most part the streets were but the continuation of lanes running straight up the steepest hills, with few or no cross streets and absolutely no means of access by easy gradients along the slope. No land was set aside for public buildings or parks - not even an open square. The explanation and excuse was that "No one expected Dover to become a city." But today it has already outgrown this hap-hazard congeries of by-ways, and continued growth in the future is reasonably certain. Its increase of twenty-five percent, in the past decade, somewhat above the average for towns of its class may be taken as a gage for the decades to come. Now is the time to direct this growth so that a convenient, healthful, and beautiful town may result, - in short to adopt and carry out a town plan. The town plan will concern itself with Dover's physical needs, treating them as component parts of an organic whole, - its waterways and railroads, its street system and public services, its administrative, educational, and recreative centres, and lastly the control of private property. The effect of the rugged topography must be considered: adequate provision must be made for sanitation and health; ease of communication and the economic subdivision of land into lots must be secured. Recreation facilities must be brought to the point where they will serve all the people: school playgrounds for the little children, playfields for the older ones, woods and view parks, and the shores of ponds will need to be acquired to gradually form a balanced system. Compared with other progressive small cities Dover is still very deficient in park acreage, as is shown in Table I. An estimate of the proposed park acreage shown on the general plan in the front of this report is given in Table II. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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