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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t and air Available rentable space in rooms 516800 1762,0606.600 Total 10,000 10.000 THE NEW YORK TENEMENT-HOUSE El^IL AND ITS CURE 113 It will be noticed that, although thespace left vacant for light and air is al-most one-half more, or one thousandsquare feet greater, in Plan A than inPlan D, yet the amount of rentable spacein rooms is the same in both ; but eventhis increased area does not adequatelyrepresent the relative advantage of tlieformer plan over the latter in this re-spect, for the light is concentrated inPlan A in large bodies. The ligliting Thus the central court in Plan A issmaller than the united area of tlieliglit wells in Plan I) ; l)ut Uiit roomsopening upon the wells will re(;eivean insufficient amount of liglit, wliilethose ojjening upon the court shown inPlan A, where the least dimensifMi is28 feet, will be well lighted. Indeed,every room upon this latt(;r jjlan wouldreceive an abundance of light, for noneof them have windows ojjening upon a ////////A iJt Line T
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Street Plan B,Fig5 of a building does not depend so much space less than 18 feet wide, whde the upon the area of the unoccupied space windows of most of the rooms of the as upon how that space is managed, other plan open upon a space onlyVol. XVI.—12 114 THE NEW YORK TENEMENT-HOUSE EFIL AND ITS CURE X about four feet wide ;nor do these widthseither represent therelative amount oflight, as up to a cer-tain point the lightincreases in a great-er proportion thanthe increase in thewidth of the court.Also a court, unlessvery large, which isopen on one side isof ver) much moreservice than one ofthe same dimensionsclosed on all sides.The difference, then,in the lighting of thetwo plans is out ofall proportion tothe increased lightarea. A building con-structed on Plan Awould be properlylighted; buildingsconstructed on PlanD are only j^roj^erlylighted at the twoends. The availablerentable sjoace can-not be compared, forone is fit for humanhabitation and theother is not. Now let us com-pare t

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