Quiet is essential in anybody's life. The most trustworthy and substantial quiet comes from having fewer people, fewer potential noise makers, Ground. Trees and open space about houses cut down sounds, too. These are luxuries which the architect of garden apartments, built in the less thickly populated outer belt of city land, can afford to incorporate in his design. He dees it by the simple practice-of leaving at least half the land free.
Some currently fashionable features in apartment houses might drop away in time—at least they are considered deplorable and unfunctional by objecting architects. These architects can't understand why anybody should covet a sunken living room (not done in the newest houses in mid town but stylish at less expensive addresses) with the two or three irritating little steps, the outdoors-looking iron railing, the gallery that is mostly useless and takes up space.
Nobody denies that perfection in apartment houses is still around the corner, but builders and architects have made tremendous strides in giving people what they want most—Qquiet, morning sun, cross-ventilation, uncramped rooms, graciousness of surroundings. Progress has been made against heavy odds. The high cost of land, the inescapable necessity of making a profit, are hard to beat, Somehow, slowly, the goal-is being achieved,
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