Streets and Slums

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Excerpt from Streets and Slums: A Study in Local Municipal Geography (With Maps)Returning to the more regularly laid out portions of New York and Baltimore, the New York up-town block of square feet is, of course, three and one-third times as large as the Baltimore block of square feet. Perhaps the New York block may be rather too large, probably the Baltimore block is too small, and certainly the depth of our blocks, 150 feet, is very badly chosen. On the same map, Map No. 1, is shown a block, D, which strikes a good average between the extremes of too large and too small. It is a block situated not in any distant city, but in that part of Baltimore, so to speak, which lies in Baltimore County, that is to say in Canton, just beyond the city limits. About sixty years ago the land of the Canton Company was laid out by Caspar Weaver, Surveyor, - so Mr. Martenet, our former City Surveyor, informs me - ou a plan which seems on the whole a judicious one, and which is rather interesting by reason of the ingenuity shown in the selection of measurements. The blocks are each 458 feet by 204, the avenues are 70'feet wide and the streets 60 feet, so that ten blocks going north and south, and twenty blocks going east and west, make exactly one mile. The proportion of street area in a city laid out on this plan would be 33 per cent. And of blocks 67 per cent. It seems rather strange that so good a system as this, existing - ou paper at least - at our very doors, should have been completely ignored, and that we should still have adhered to the old 150-feet to - an-alley plan, as laid down on Poppleton's Plat.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.