The two might be a mile or two away from system of fast elec trio trains, perla tube neet with a ug the living tow basement of each skyscraper. Some such comnal form of conveyance would be necessary until we reach t which everyone has his or of Otherwise, when that stage is reached, not only would all the garden space between the towers hi replaced by parking space, but even with towers a quarter of a mile apart the congestion on the roads at peak times would be something we have not yet experienced.
If we are to take the factories out of the towns in one direction there is clearly something to be said for taking the business offices away in another, and leaving the centre to go back to domestic life. To live in the centre of a town like Chester, on the one hand, or Cheldenham, on the other, is a very pleasant thing. To live there and yet' to do one's work in some crystal city of quick-moving machine: lifts, cars, and electric trains, where every t is designed for efficiency a sounds at first sight a very fi but are we ourselves equal to sufficiently department Do we not, in the middle of w want to think of other things n but to go out for a stroll for te: even visit a cafe or public-house or look at the shops? One is always sorry for the managers of works, as well as for the workers, who have to spend long hours every day in the same building, with perhaps a couple of visits to the canteen or to the directors' luncheon room for meals as the only breaks. They are prisoners. I very much fear the lawyers, architects. and business men, thinking clear thoughts in their crystal towers, would be prisoners too. They might even become as hard as the S which surra! m.
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