Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 236, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1927 — Page 4

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EXPERT DECLARES SKYSCRAPERS NOT UNMIXEI BLESSING Counsel for New York City Club Opposes Tall Buildings. /? 1/ VKA Service NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—The cock-a-doodle-doo Idea of civic pride Is one of the direct menaces to the lives of workers In American cities. Evofy day, millions of dollars are utterly wasted through ldlness enforced by congestion. The dance of death In crowded streets claims a number of victims every week that la equal to a major catastrophe. "Oh, but these things are Inevitable,” says Municipal Pride. "We are a. great city, We must have tall buildings to be truly metropolitan. "Applesauce,” responds Henry H. Curran, who made the foregoing criticisms. “Babbitts and Babel Towers are threatening our lives. Bike weeds, cities are growing fast and tall. Also like weeds, they are giving no thought to cultivation." This man Curran, who dares to call the haughty skylines by harsh names, is lejullng the fight against the skyscraper invasion of New

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creasingly serious problem. He la a former soldier, once nominee for mayor' arid' ex cofhnnsJllbflAr bT Ttrimigratlon. "Probably our most startling argument against building congestion Is furnished by this statement from fire headquarters in New York: “ 'lf, In the uptown theater and garment sections or In the downtown business district, all the buildings were emptied simultaneously of their usual throngs, the streets would be plied seven-deep with humanity." "This Is not the nightmare of an alarmist," says Curran. “If a hurricane or earthquake did strlk& New York —even though only enough bricks and windows fell to create a panto—the greatest tragedy In our history would result from the sudden Jamming of millions Into the streets. ''Traffic conditions already are intolerable. Streets cannot be widened further; the city cannot afford to build more subways. Anyway, if we attempt to lessen congestion that way, relief Is temporary. By the time new subways are completed, they are lined with new skyscrapers. "These same conditions are true, to a somewhat lesser extent, In almost all our major cities today.” Already there are more than 2,000,000 people who travel In and out of Manhattan every day in addition to the throngs that live on the island. By the end of 1926 plans will have been filed for nearly 100 new factory and offlve buildings of skyscraper proportions. These will be occupied by 150,000 new people—enough to fill 150 ten-car subway trains. Three Killed Daily "Three persons are killed every day by motor vehicles In New York,”

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says Curran. "This is double the death, rata, of- five years ago, blit gtlU It increases. And one of these- thrdl dead Is a child of less than 16 years. Where children lack parks, they play an exciting game of hide-and-seek with motor trucks—and too often the trucks win. This is municipal murder —and we allow It to go on. "There are plenty of economic disadvantages to this concentration. Loss of time from congestion Is almost Incalculable, motor trucks have home of enforced Idleness every day. The skyscraper Itself Is not a good Investment. Above the first two or three stories no more rent is realized than is necessary to pay the Interest." The answer to the skyscraper problem is decentralization, says Curran. That will mean smaller buildings and more space, room for motor cars and pedestrians to move quickly and safely. American cities must learn to grow orizontally. If they must have tall buildings, space should be provided around them that Is equal In area to the room that would be taken up If the buildings were laid on their sides. Same Problem Iri Chicago "Chicago, with Its small loop llstrlct, faces the same problem as does New York —the attempt to multiply many-fold the area of business districts,” he pointed out-" Other cities, however, are bothered needlessly because of a mistaken municipal pride and Inter-city rivalry. For instance. Detroit is to have an elghty-one-story building—the highest in the world. "Modern buildings, In the main.

are ugly as sin. They are square, uninteresting blocks looking like upended trunks in a baggage room. A building ordinarily should be no higher than the street on which It faces. If It does go higher. It should have an additional equivalent of open space around Its base. "Strict zoning laws are the only way out. We do not object to skyscrapers simply because they are high, but because they mean congested traffic and consequent accidents, unhealthful crowding, lack of light and air; downright ugliness, and loss

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