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Professor Beale, who is the chairman of Mayor Curley's Greater Boston committee, has recently returned from abroad where he made a careful study of the London borough system of municipal government. In telling of his findings in this research, Dr. Beale said, "I was very favorably impressed with the...
The man in the street watches a 72-story building go up and queries: What will cities look like in the future? What innovations will there be; how will people live in the tall buildings? Two architect-prophets have recently published books* in which each essays to predict the future...
*THE CITY OF TOMORROW-Le Corbusier- Payson & Clarke ($7.50). THE METROPOLIS OF TOMORROW-Hugh Ferriss-Ives Washburn ($7.50).
The children of today may grow up to witness the magnificent spectacle of a metropolis uprooted overnight with all its residents mad, dead or chemically diseased by next morning. This will be the next World War. How, when, why will it start?
After all, one of the finest things about Boston is that it is one of the best places to go away from in the world. Rocky coast, sandy beach, blue-grey hills are all within easy striking distance. Consequently the effects of week-ending at Harvard are not usually so...