A Day in the Life of an Ordinary Man "Architecture" invites its readers to consider the condition of the average citizen in any one of our large towns. "We will take the commercial worker, moderately intelligent, moderately literate, for greater simplicity' of argument. He is employed during the hours of daylight in the centre of the city. How far does his interest in the city extend beyond the office window? He may walk from his tube station to his place of employment, from his place of employment to his favourite cating-house. At the earliest possible moment he makes good his escape: any feeling with which the city inspires him is altogether negative. Its churches have to be pulled down because he will not use them. Its buildings are covered with signs and hoardings, and he does not even notice it. Its streets are choked, its crossings paralyse with a welter of miscellaneous traffic. horse and mechanical, fast and stationary. He only becomes aware of this plethora if he has to wait twenty minutes in a vehicle himself. Half the people employed around him have to work: by electric light. in midsummer. It seems the most natural thing in the world. Three-quarters of them make their journey home standing up in overcrowded carriages, surrounded on.all sides by advertisements. In this case it may be allowed that his patience is not without reason: he is moving fast towards a familiar place that is-in truth his own. But we know very well that as soon as he ar: tives he shuts himself up la the
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