The American City, Հատոր 26Arthur Hastings Grant, Harold S. Buttenheim Buttenheim Publishing Corporation, 1922 |
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Էջ 53 - Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
Էջ 132 - Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Էջ 550 - ... for the ensuing fiscal year, with comparative statements, in parallel columns, of the appropriations and expenditures for the current and next preceding fiscal year, and the increases or decreases in the appropriations recommended. (b) An itemized statement of the taxes required and of the estimated revenues of the city...
Էջ 534 - The enormous losses in human happiness and in money which have resulted from lack of city plans which take into account the conditions of modern life, need little proof. The lack of adequate open spaces, of playgrounds and parks, the congestion of streets, the misery of tenement life and its repercussions upon each new generation, are an untold charge against our American life.
Էջ 490 - Special Service Department This company has a corps of trained engineers and chemists who have given years of study to modern road problems. The advice of these men may be had for the asking by any one interested.
Էջ 550 - Not later than sixty days before the end of each fiscal year, the city manager shall prepare and submit to the council an annual budget for the ensuing fiscal year, based upon detailed estimates furnished by the several departments and other divisions of the city government, according to a classification as nearly as possible uniform.
Էջ 415 - patrolman, officer, or other member of the police force appointed by the New York state bridge and tunnel commission and the New Jersey interstate bridge and tunnel commission...
Էջ 395 - We do not hold that an officer, when in pursuit of a lawbreaker, is under no obligation to exercise a reasonable degree of care to avoid injury to others who may be on the public roads and streets. What we do hold is that, when so engaged, he is not to be deemed negligent merely because he fails to observe the requirements of the Motor Vehicle Act. His conduct is to be examined and tested by another standard. He is required to observe the care which a reasonably prudent man would exercise in the...
Էջ 534 - The lack of adequate open spaces, of playgrounds and parks, the congestion of streets, the misery of tenement life and its repercussions upon each new generation, are an untold charge against our American life. Our cities do not produce their full contribution to the sinews of American life and national character. The moral and social issues can only be solved by a new conception of city building.
Էջ 50 - ... state law: (a) To rectify on appeals the errors of building superintendents in passing on applications for building permits. (b) To decide borderline and exceptional cases of buildings where specified in the ordinance. (c) To vary the literal requirement of the law in individual cases of buildings where unnecessary and excessive hardship is caused and the intention of the law is equally accomplished by an alternative method to be prescribed. Not only should the powers of such a board be specified...