What the Chinese Commission Hopes to Accomplish: A Model Area Beyond the Settlement: A Combination of All Modern Ideas In the preliminary plan of Now Shanghai prepared by Dr. Shen Yi, Chairman of the City Planning Commission of Greater Shanghai, the dominant features are the two cross axis, the creation of a civic centre at the intersection of cho' axis, a system of parks and open spaces, the. Riverside Drive, the new Railway Station, the residential centre, the industrial centre, and port development (not the map). The few existing diagonal streets are incorporated in the new plan. The plan is by no means final and the Commission is continaits work for further improvement.
Little less than four months ago, the City Planning Commission of Greater Shanghai was created for the purpose of working out a plan to represent,. in the broadest way. all interests' in the community and to provide for future physical expansion. The Commission is compoted of 11 members reprosenting the various administrati organs of the City Government. Dr, Shen Yi, a German-educated municipal engineer,* who is the present Commissioner of Public Works of the City Government, was made Chairman and Mr. Day Doon, an American-educated archttect formerly connected with Mr.
K. Murphy of New York (no Architectural Adviser to Nanking), was appointed Adviser. The ultimate purpose of this new project is to create a new city which will be worthy of the name of the greatest metropolis of the East. The te chosen is the Kiangwan district, conveniently located between Woosung und the Settlement. It reaches the Whangpoo River to the east and the Shanghai-Woosung Railway line to the west. The on-ire site comprises well over 190, 000 mow of level ground. The civic centre will be centrally located, cupying approximately 33000 mov.
Although it is impossible to diet the future with absolute curacy, the new plan provides far ax possible for future expansion, It means the extension in every manner and direction of all and the study of the plan, based upd upon this growth, involves the arter system anda general distribution of the various elements of city life, its manufactures and industries, all the wholesale and retail trades, Che financial and residential districts; also parks and playgrounds.
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