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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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re now entirely familiar with THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER ^ 24 ► MAY. NINETEEN THIRTY-THREE the high-speed traffic arteries that carryswift-moving traffic from one local centerto another, or from one city to another. Inour ignorance of the past it was thoughtthat these speedways enhanced the valueof property along their frontage. On thecontrary, sad experience has taught manyof us that this is not true. Nobody wishesto live on such a highway where speedingtraffic dispenses noise and poisonous fumesthroughout a twentv-four hour day. with a remedy that is. in essence, zoning controlby plan. This remedy suggests that inter-community traffic arteries be made intowhat have been termed freeways. A free-way thus becomes a highway upon \vhichno property is allowed to front and whichis intersected only at widely spaced inter-vals, properly planned to accommodate thecross traffic. Abutting property is made tofront either on these cross streets, on sec-ondary streets that run parallel to and at
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CASCADE AT UPPER END OF MALL, MIDWICK VIEW ESTATES.LOS ANGELES COUNTY. CALIFORNIACook. Hall f Cornell. Landscape Architects and City Plannersof this cascade is the natural site for the amphitheater,yet grown to mature size but suggests its possibilities. the attendant inconvenience and bodily riskof fighting this traffic every time one ven-tures from his house. And business alsohas discovered that it is not fed by thisstream of mad motorists who are intentonly on reaching their destination. Thusour country has, within a few years, ac-quired miles and miles of frontage alongthese traffic arteries; frontage that, for themost part, has no economic use as such andis nothing but a financial burden to himwho has acquired it as a business or resi-dence lot of speculative possibilities. Theaggregate financial loss to owners of suchlots is enormous. As an antidote to such conditions someof our leading city planners have offered one side of the freeway, or on closed-endstreets that come in at r

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