The Woosung district is thought to offer an ideal site for port development. With its miles of water frontage over 35 feet in death near the shore, vessels of all sizes and description will have no culty in finding accommodation. Railway transportation will be linked directly to the wharves, ro that unnecessary delay and expense may be avoided. While the district lies to the extreme north of ithe new site, it is, at the same 2, easily "accessible by several trunk highways from the central district." Wharves and docks will be designed after the best examples in Europe and America, Though railway transportation is not included within the scope of city planning, it is obvious that it is one of the important items to considered. Certain _modifications of the existing lines will be Jeitected. Chenju, a small town north-east of the Settlement, will made a railway junction and from it four lines will branch out: to the east all passenger trains will be brought into the now lation at the west side of the city; ite the west be the Shanghai-{Nanking tine; to the north the Shanghai-Woosung tine; and to the south the Lunghua Station and the Shanghai-Hangchow line. From. Lunghua, a line will be built to ross the Whangpoo and to travel northward to a point opposite Woosung.
A network of main arterials is laid out, providing for the relief of overloaded routes and a free movement of traffic between the [various centres, so that the bus ness of the district may be carried on without the handicap of inadequate communication, The most dominant feature of the new city will be the Civie Centre, adorned with Chinese renaissance architecture. It situate at the intersection of two I thoroughfares of the new ity. The Blayor's building will be placed in the centre, flanked nine bureaux. The east-and-west axis is represented by a GO metre wide boulevard running eastward from the new railway station to the river. The north-and-south axis is another 60 metre-wide boulevard running north and south, which forms the principal approach from the present International Settlement to the south.
About 2,000 mow of ground are given to a plaza in front of the government buildings: and approachjes from east, west and south, iThe Civie Centre will be embellished with gardens. monuments, pools, fountains, bridges, ete., the hole to form, with the future courthouses, museum, art. galleries, auditorium, "post-office, ete, a monumental and beautiful ensemble.
The streets are so planned that they intersect mostly at right fangles. A standard is suggested for the width of the streets:
Doulevanis 60 metres, main arterials 30-metses, ordinary streets metres, The orientation of the sttest, blocks has also been considered.
With the exception of: the limitation set by the existing main roads, the blocks.will run east and west, so that the buildings will mostly: _]face either south or north.
In this way the intense summer sunlight. may be minimized, In the residenial districts, ring streets will be introduced. They will not "only Jereate a picturesque effect but will also reduce through traffic. "One-way" routes andthe "gyratory" system, both of which have proved Juseful in cities of Europe and America, whi be adopted.
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