Your plans for Greater Shanghai fare broad in scope, and comprehen the feeds of your situation masterly manner. The design developed for the new city is at. once bold, and, as well, unique la the annals of city planning, Recognizing the impossibility of using the old city or its economical zones of "'Concession"—all densely pop: ulated, nondescript, haphazard and completely inadequate in planning, as a nucleus for a great modern port and city, you wisely determined to establish a new civic centre completely outside the present city, well the northward, and lay out around this centre a' municipal area of wide spaces great thoroughfares and adequate streets, with all of the requirements of a present-day city and great seaport,
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