ABSTRACT
Introduction BY the time a village has grown to the size of a city there must inevitably be some sort of a plan in the design of the streets and house blocks. But, as we have noticed in many of the later chapters, this is usually merely an extension of the checkerboard pattern of the real estate agent. It serves to cut the land up into sections which are easy to survey, and which can be readily subdivided into lesser blocks. Such rectangular blocks lend themselves to our conventional rectangular houses. But they do not harmonize with the topography, and they are very wasteful of the traffic-time, since they entail much 'going round corners'. They pay little attention to the prevalent winds, or to the dominant solar rays; nor do they lend themselves to the display of fine buildings or monuments.
