Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 July 1920 — Page 12

CITY PLANNING EXPERT WORK ON PITTSBURG Seek to Transform Steel Center Into Beautiful and Modern Municipality. By FBEDEHTO J. HABKIN. PITTSBURG, July 2.—For ths first time la Its history, Pittsburg Is now being- planned. A staff of city planning expels Is engaged busily In creating a scheme for transforming Pittsburg into a modern, comfortable and even beautiful city. It must be admitted that Pittsburg today is not of these things. Industrially, of course, it Is supreme. If it were lifted suddenly bodily from the United States every part of the country would be affected by Its absence. Famous for its steel, coke products, iron, tin, glass and electrical equipment, and celebrated for its stogies, it owns the largest cork plant, a giant pickling and preserving business and leads the world in the production of finished aluminum. But as a municipality, Pittsburg is lagging far behind its middle western neighbors. While the candle-power of Cleveland, St. Louis and Detroit is Increasing rapidly in the metropolitan firmament, Pittsburg’s is only slightly brighter than It was a decade ago. FOREFATHERS ARK TO BE BLAMED. This is not the fault of the present generation of Pittsburgers, who are extremely enterprising and energetic, but the fault of their grandfathers who laid J#>e foundation of what should properly be h great metropolis in a location peculiarly unfitted for expansion. Geography Is a vital factor In shaping the destiny of cities. The geography of Chicago made It easy for It to become a mammoth town, and the geography of Pittsburg persistently has hampered its growth. Squeezed into a narrow triangle of land between the Monongahela and Alleghany rivers, which unite at one point to form the Ohio, Is the city proper, with a veritable barricade of hills as Its hypothemuse. These hills, while picturesque to live

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on, are the bane of Pittsburg's existence. Everything that is sad or neglected about Pittsburg may be blamed on them. They present stubborn obstacles to building operations; they make transportation more costly and slower than In most large cities; they make Improvements absurdly expensive and they have retarded the growth of the city in every way. When most cities get too crowded they Just move on a little farther, but Pittsburg has to climb a cliff. It was probably the oppressive nearness of these granite walls which caused the early Pittsburg eettlers to economize on space and make the city's streets so narrow, although this is attributed also by one authority to carelessness, which permitted the town to proceed erratically along the old cowpaths. Anyway, Pittsburg Is now paying the price of this mistake. Its business district Is a hopeless jumble of narrow, crisscross streets, few of them more than forty feet wide and nearly ail of them divided by street car tracks. Buildings seem to Jostle each other for room, the pedestrians almost trip over each other, and the railroads are so cramped for space that their terminal facilities are painfully Inadequate. REASON FOR PLAN IS SEEN. * Add to these conditions the fact that most of the streets are cobble-stoned, and you will see why Pittsburg is beginning to feel the tragic need of a plan. But as the spoiled child of many philanthropists, Pittsburg waited for a plan to be given to It, and this is Just what has happened, although the city eventually -will have to pay for It. It Is the business Interests of Pittsburg. Including bankers, manufacturers, merchants and professional men who are financing the planning, fifty individnuls and corporations having contributed the necessary money to get the project started. They have organized themselves into what is called the citizens’ committee on city planning, and already have accumulated a large office force and staff of architectural and engineering experts for their work. The cost of carrying out the program will run into the scores of millions during the next twenty years, according to one of the aforesaid citizens. In the meantime Pittsburg will be getting anew boulevard and some new bridges and a few recreational facilities. In other words—the words of the committee, In :'act—“the money will be

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spent to provide a major thoroughfare system, to Improve and extend recreational facilities, for better transit and transportation, to stimulate home building and improve living conditions, to protect and enhance property values by proper zoning, and to make the city beautiful as well as convenient and efficient.” “It is quite true,” said the citizen who explained the scope of the plan to us, "that Pittsburg today offers fewer attractions to the business men, to the worker and to the home builder, than other cities do. "Our cliff dwellers spend Just about twice as much time as they should in traveling the shprt distances from their homes to their work. ‘‘They have fewer facilities for diversion. “For a long time we had no difficulty In attracting all the workers we

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