For the last fifteen years or more certaut eminent architects and town-planners [have dreamt and written and talked about a city of skyscraper towers, not welded together into 2 congos as in New York, but spread out, one to every quarter of a mile. so that each rees the maximum of sunlit ut and air, writes Prof. C. H. Reilly in the the "Manchester Architects always Degin by considering their buildings in relation to their tes. What ki ite is r such s. What kind of site is needed fo: S with good material underneath for foundation must be a large plain eve! or half that of t must stand up strongly ridently from the plain, lik cathedral, to look thei some mes w h twe to thirty thousand persons at work in ead, lead to the concentration of one type of office in one building. This further simplifies "con-cannot escape But the gre tall tower building v is not just or even of an litest atmosphere v e wor! sense of unlimited round one.
n of tall free standing towers with gardens between them would seem, then, a fine place for work, specially if one has a car to step into directly one leaves one's tower. Is it equally good for living in? Certainly not, I should say, because the very isolation of the units which makes it good for certain kinds of work would make bad for most kinds of life For life one must live 1 contact, however one pretend to dislike it, with one's fellow men, Shooting by m in an express lift is not contact. One must be able to see them if not to hear them, and from the tower one would only be able to see them as ant the paths below. The sky scraper city, then, might be the te town, but the oppo y round, a e instead of a dormitory, That is pos-lo. One could leave the warm, comfortable town on the earth each morning to go to one's e clo each even-
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