Author : Charles Mulford Robinson
Release : 2016-06-15
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Improvement of Towns and Cities, Or the Practical Basis of Civic Aesthetics (Classic Reprint) by : Charles Mulford Robinson

Download or read book The Improvement of Towns and Cities, Or the Practical Basis of Civic Aesthetics (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Mulford Robinson. This book was released on 2016-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Improvement of Towns and Cities, or the Practical Basis of Civic Aesthetics The specialist, seeing much in little, does not See far. In zeal for pavements one forgets the trees; in zeal for parks the thoroughfare is for gotten. It has seemed well, then, in the great new awakening of enthusiasm and concern for city beauty in a score of directions, at last to grasp them all, to group them logically in a single volume and show the relative positions. This wish deter mined the underlying syllabus on which, as indi cated in the Table of Contents, the book has been built up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.