The Supercity a Planned Physical Equipment for City Life
The Supercity a Planned Physical Equipment for City Life
Robert Russ Kern
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Nevertheless, it can be done. Our cities rapidly succumb to a worn, soiled, and even grimy ap pearance because of the dirt and dust which arises from the burden of traffic in their streets and the soot and smoke which pour forth from the thousands of factory, office, and house chimneys in these cities. How can our cities retain their attractive, neat newness when a thou sand smoking chimneys like an army of dirty children are pressing ten thousand grimy fingers against every clean object in the...m, soiling and smearing everything with their dirt and grime ? The heavy volume of traffic in the streets of our unplanned cities in addition act like great mills for making dust, grinding up the dirt and refuse in the streets, and then leaving it to be strewn about and to be blown all over the city, defacing the expensive fa- gades of the buildings and marring and soiling the homes of the people by showering their furnishings and decora tions with this dust and dirt. These destructive agents, which soon make any city look old, worn, and unattractive 246 THE SUPERCITY and cause it to be depressing and unhealthful, are removed from the new city.
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