The Archive · 1929

Extensive Zoning Scheme

Already there are vast plans for zoning the entire region. One seetion will be devoted to wharves, godowns, factories,.ote. " It will be fan industrial district. Close to it will be a commercial and financial @iatriet, through which will run a divide artery, in principle like Nan King Road but actually vastly Superior to ity for it will be a modern street unhampered by landlords who interfere with street widening.plans, Besides, it will start correctly; there will be no ancient history' to prevent modern from replacing ran shackle huts.

{There will bea residential zone, 3 garden city, with avenues shaded by lovely trees and houses separated from each other by pretty gardens. No slams will mar this model sett! ment and no Chinese food and fruit shops will pollute the atmosphere with rotting vegetation, AN will be sanitary and clean, like a little German suburb, carefully guard: by a Department of Public' Wor! and u Department of Health, whose eagle eye will mark down for slaughter every germ aid mosquito that dares encroach upon its confine:

Finally, a civie centre will _be marked off, perhaps adorned with 'a beautiful' park, in which will be housed the Municipality and all departments. Here the Government also be erected—those require space in Shanghai, and ous public institutions, that clustered about a park will be all the fe of the community.

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