Show HOME aft U OE LP S lj PARIS THE WORLDS MODEL wide avenues add to attractiveness of french capital other cities far behind its spacious streets make parts paris the most attractive and in many respects the most convenient capital in the mhd world narrow streets and areas have been swept away a large portion of the city has been entirely rebuilt and its expansion has proceeded in an orderly manner in accor accordance darce with a definite plan modified from time almo to time but not altered materially paris has now miles of streets 08 98 feet six inches or more in width london has not more than 8 and few of the streets are more than feet wide whereas somo some ot of the avenues in paris are more than feet wide and the width of one Is as much as feet among world cities that havo have followed a definite nite plan of development and expansion berlin must receive es pedal mention the broad boulevards rind avenues of its suburbs charlot chariot denburg and aro arc characteristic te of districts surrounding the central area of the german capital A noticeable feature in the plans of both berlin and paris la Is the provision on ol oi spa spacious cloua traffic centers from which the more important streets radiate in many directions this principle has been developed in london only to a very limited extent it Is true that london has done much luring during the last half century first through the metropolitan board ol of works and later through the london county council in the way of street improvement but the works that have so far been undertaken have been crit by high british authority R as scattered anti and fragmentary forming no part of a complete scheme and de signed independently without reference to a genera general 1 plan when we come to our Ameri american canil cities such as new york and chicago we find that like london their growth and development have suffered from a similar absence of plan and cantrall centralized cen trall zed effort |