International studio (32.1907)

The Girden City

is founded on the cellular method of building pur-
sued by the bee, and involves the use of the poly-
gon, six or eight sided, as the unit, resulting in an
interesting enlace ment of allotments and saving of
waste space by avoiding acute angles. The pro-
portion of open space is thereby affected. The
author sets the density of population at 25, as com-
pared to Buckingham at 55 and Howard at 80.
His road area, on the other hand, is, compared to
residential, as 2 to 5, Buckingham’s being as 2 to 3
and Howard’s, 1 to 1.

The housing problem, the construction and ar-
rangement of buildings, is discussed acutely for
village, city, public and industrial structures. The
various villages in which Garden City principles
have been used, such as Adelaide, Bourneville
and Port Sunlight in England, Serrieres in Switz-
erland, and the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company and
Pullman City in the United States, are reviewed.
Locomotion and traffic, the disposal of sewage and
the multifarious economic aspects round out a
book the defects of which are involved in an en-
thusiasm for thoroughness. This in itself is a pity,
for the subject is one of wide appeal and high

importance. But Mr. Sennett, it is to be feared,
will not be widely read until he, or some successor,
has learned to make one page do for four.

J. C. N. Forestier (Inspecteur des Eauxet Forets,
Conservateur des Promenades de Paris), with the
Gallic sense of organization and administrative ac-
tion, sets forth a programme for the undertaking of
parking systems by groups of municipalities or de-
partments or other administrative entities. His
modest pamphlet, “ Grandes Villes et Systemes de
Parcs ” (Hachette et Cie.), is an earnest of possible
future legislation. In his succinct and compre-
hensive survey he discusses and maps the parking
situation in European cities, and in Washington,
Boston, New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Harris-
burg, etc.

Two recent publications devoted to the units
of garden housing, the one a collection of plans for
modern country cottages, the other embracing in
detail features of interior decoration, are J. H. Elder
Duncan’s “Country Cottages and Week End
Homes” and “The 1907 Year Book of Decorative
Art” (John Lane Company), the latter compris-
ing 405 illustrations and 19 color plates.

“ Country Cottages"

ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS TO R. A. BRIGGS, F.R.I.B.A.,

“BEECH WOOD,” COOKHAM DEAN ARCHITECT

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