Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1916 — Plan the “City Practical." [ARTICLE]

Plan the “City Practical."

Something of the right spirit is in St. Louis, where Harlan Bartholomew has been engaged by the citizens’ city planning cpmmittee. The river front and the street system will first engage his attention. “The city beautiful idea does not , appeal to the general public sufficiently to win financial support,” he said shortly after arriving from Newark, N. J., where for three years he had been a city plan expert. “I am interested in the city practical, and I find that the public is . inclined to favor it, as is comes to understand what can be done, and the benefits that will follow. “The river front should be made a public convenience and a business asset, and the improvements to be made should be in the direction of aiding the interchange of freight between rail and water carriers. “The street system of St. Louis, as of most American cities, is too largely rectangular. Radial highways are needed. Here the work of city replanning has to correct the mistakes of the past, which are often costly mistakes. The only place where it can do new work, and prevent further mistakes is in the planning of subdivisions and additions.”