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Show FEATURES OF FUTURE CITY Chances for the Better That Art Assured Simply by the Ordinary March of Events. Tomorrow you may not know your own city. They have probably begun altering It already, or are planning to do so. If not, It doesn't greatly matter, mat-ter, because certain forces at work will compel far-reaching changes automatically. auto-matically. Tomorrow your city will have wide boulevards cut through Its narrow streets. These will accommodate accommo-date four, six and eight lines of traffic. traf-fic. They will start at the center and run miles out Into the country.. Thousands Thou-sands of buildings will be torn down. Sharp street corners will be rounded off and the circle and crescent take the place of the checkerboard. Did your city fathers, years ago, lay out a downtown boulevard or town with a strip of parkway in the center? That beauty spot will be needed for traffic. But better beauty, spots will appear miles from the downtown section. sec-tion. Slums and tenements will disappear, dis-appear, too. There will be a general grading up of living standards, and an equalization of real estate values. When you drive a car the traffic cop will no longer be able to bawl you out, for he will disappear from street crossings, guiding traffic by electric signals from a point where he can see everything but say nothing that is, if he doesn't disappeur altogether, says a Saturday Kvenlng Post writer. For there will be doubledeeked street crossings cross-ings at congested points And traffic at ordinary street crossings will be speeded up by diffused lighting which kills the shadows that now make them dangerous. ' |