The Archive · 1929

Skyscraper Here To Stay

Yet the skyscraper is here to In this country, even in small cities where land is cheap, and where there is no need to go upwards instead of outwards, the tendency is still to build high bull whereas, to my way of thi there would be far more indi duality, character and happiness the small city has its rows of two and three-storey buildings where men could meet with less rush to conduct their mutual affairs of life.

Think of it—a thousand feet up ip the air, and still contemplating higher buildings! The. older-fashioned may wonder. if, in this Age of Mammon, this very urge for height is but the urge of man to faven while engaged so

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