ABSTRACT
A city requires squares of various sizes, and streets cutting each other in various directions, and differing from each other in size and decorations. In this arrangement there should be quantity, contrast, even some disorder, to produce beauty and elegance. The public squares of Philadelphia, are incalculably important to the health of the city. The Boston Common is the most spacious public pleasure-ground in the United States. The New Haven Green has been justly celebrated as one of the most beautiful public squares in the country. Its elms are remarkably fine; it has recently been enclosed with a light and tasteful iron railing, which adds much to its beauty. The beauty of the edifices constitutes the principal beauty of the streets, squares, and city in general. If the public garden or promenade were richly and tastefully arranged and ornamented, a desire for neat and pleasant dwelling-houses would naturally arise among the villagers.
