Show omit low 0 it H ie api v J DOES NOT MEAN prettiness to term arn city beautiful maa has been much M misunderstood I 1 sunder stood real ends to be Attal attained ned that term the city beautiful founds like tying pink ribbons around posts kven as aa applied to civic art a as aa s distinct front froin city planning the no namo me la Is misleading it la Is tho the lilea indicated by that unfortunate falsify falsifying in phrase that raymond un 1111 win in ili his admirable town planning in practice lalli lampoons boons civic art Is too often under understood sto od t to 0 consist of 0 filling our with marblo marble fountains dotting our squares with groups of statuary twining our lamp lamppost posto ri with wriggling acan acanthus tidus leaves or dolphins tails and our buildings with meaningless bunches of fruit mul and lowers flowers tied up with imps sible stone ribbons it la Is not tho the prettifying prettify ing of cities that Is the object of city planners pl annem tile building of Intra urban later intercity elty anil and interstate transit tho th con st ruction of sowers sewers of gutters gul tora of gar bago bage disposal plants the destruction of areas to bo be replaced by decent housing the development of port facilities the up building of the health of the city through the creation of playgrounds and parks parka parks primarily us as health agents not pre till fl fi catlon cation laen itte aures mures all of these and others are the chief alms aline of city planning there will of course he ha a necessary improvement in ili the appearance of the city as the natural result of skill in city building and that im provement pro Is nu nn entirely proper object but it ought not to be permitted to paralyze the whole movement through th tho 0 creation of af an entirely in correct understanding of the ends to be attained other phrases havo have boon been suggested which are useful as antitoxins to that city beautiful phrase but they generally accent come doroe one phase ot of city planning at the ex nae of the others the city practical the city useful the city scientific are examples one of the best Is negative it was coined by robert W de forest and represents the movement as aiming to exterminate the unregulated city hideous but no phrase yet suggested allo ionizes the tha wide range ot of city planning and least ot of all can ibbe it be bald eald that the tha city Is latha e control tah nf of ua ito ita A I 1 4 |