Author: New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Committee on the City Plan
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Category: Art, Municipal
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Papers presented at the meeting of the Advisory Commission on City Plan, December 17, 1914: Work of earlier planning commissions, by R.H. Whitten.--Development of the official city map since 1898 and the work of the New York City Improvement Commission, by N.P. Lewis.--Work of the Brooklyn Committee on the City Plan, by F.B. Pratt.--Development of port and terminal facilities, by E.P. Goodrich.--Transit development, by D.L. Turner.--Recreation, civic architecture, building districts and general summary of present city planning needs, by G.B. Ford
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