The Archive · 1929

Nanking Wall 70 Be Retained

Murphy on the Future of the Capital addresses om the ¢it nking as Ue nations were made om Aprit large gathering members of the Pan-Pacific Awso-! fam and their friends in the!

Henry K. Murphy, architectural adviser to the National Government, and Mr. Ernest P. Goodrich, Labour, presided.

Mr, Murphy, after previous work in China ani professional, sgone into a study of the! possibilities of adopting old Chinese! architecture to meet modern acirements of planning and con of some!

Features fess world capital OF ale features, the the wonderful wall, railings thro ere the wall whens provide at Lite of old tive vistas on these! we a croup for the mia another on the the tre.

They formed by changes in the direction of the new atrects and, wherever place on adequate to the ins portance of their this wa thes hoped suuly todd creatly tothe: bes the way of due det ration of the efting down te

Features of the city. plana such matters the allocation of lange men spaces, the start, for the future needs of, a e he est possible loeati Toro als oont and station, ete. self to the problem of determi on a scientific basis the theorem proper size, area and poplati a capital for China. The scient deduction made from correlated iding was that the new Nanking] should be planned for a population of 2.009.000 and that 1,000,000] peracns would doubtless be found within #2 Influence wi cars

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