Excerpt from The New City: Principles of Planning
Conclusion; City Planning and Housing; Types of Dwellings; Minimum Requirements; Sunlight and Housing; Socrates Perception; B. C. Faust"s Theory; An Experience of the Pueblo Dwellers; Confusion of Today; Effects of Different Orientations; Room Insolation; Types of Sunrays and their Influence; Results of our Investigation; Protection against Sun; Population Density; What does Population Density Mean?; Latitude; Topography; Orientation; Duration of Insolation; Fallacy of Multi-storied Building; Relation of Depth to Length; Storey Height; Differences between the One-Family House and the Multi-storey Building; How to achieve Privacy in high Density; Influence of Density on the Plan of a Dwelling; Mixed Type of Settlement; Average Population Density; Building and Zoning Laws; Minimum Demands; Insufficiency of the Present Block and Street System; Combination of Blocks; The Super Block: Residential Area; The Super Block: Commercial Area; Advantages and Disadvantages; The Need of a New Settlement Unit; Structure, Shape and Size of the New Unit; Street System; Straight or Curved Streets?; The Width of Streets; Advantageous Features of the New Unit; Flexibility of the Use of the New Unit; Simple Industrial Settlements; Smoke-pollution and its ill Effects; How to Abolish Smoke - by Techno-Chemical Means or by Planning?; Influence of Prevailing Winds on Industrial Settlements; Four Wind Diagrams; Integrated Industries; The Commercial Area; Adaptability of the Unit to any kind of Terrain; Increase of the Number of Units by decreasing Density; The City in the Landscape; Theory and Reality; Obstacle of Replanning Cities; Old Methods
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