Report on a Plan for San FranciscoSunset Press, 1905 - 211 頁 |
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acres approaches Athenæum axis beauty Benicia Bernal Heights Buena Vista Park building built California cemetery circuit road City and County City Hall Civic Center Cliff House concourses connected contour roads cornice height Court diagonal district Duboce Park Dupont street east encircling entrance extend feet Golden Gate Park grades ground inclosed intersection Islais creek Laguna Lake Merced land Larkin street lots Market street Merced country Mission Boulevard Ness avenue O'Farrell ocean ordinance Outer Boulevard Pacific Panhandle extension parkway perimeter of distribution planting Playground Portsmouth square Potrero Heights Presidio public Place public square pueblo radial arteries Rancho recommended reservations round point Russian Hill San Francisco San Miguel shelter shore shown Sierra Point slope south of Market street system suggested summit Sutro Heights TELEGRAPH HILL terraces thence traffic treatment trees Twin Peaks Twin Peaks group valley Visitacion widened winding Yerba Buena
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第 200 頁 - That decree declares that the confirmation " is in trust for the benefit of the lot-holders, under grants from the pueblo, town, or city of San Francisco, or other competent authority, and as to any residue, in trust for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of the city.
第 30 頁 - A city plan must ever deal mainly with the direction and width of its streets. The streets of San Francisco are laid out at right angles and with little regard for grades and other physical difficulties. It may be impossible to overcome all the embarrassments arising from this condition, but certainly we can lessen them materially. The difficulty may largely be conquered by girdling the city with a boulevard — a method of facilitating communication which is by no means new. To this embracing highway...
第 29 頁 - While prudence holds up a warning finger, we must not forget what San Francisco has become in 50 years and what it is still further destined to become. Population and wealth are rapidly increasing, culture is advancing. The city looks toward a sure future wherein it will possess in inhabitants and money many times what it has now. It follows that we must not found the scheme on what the city is, so much as on what it is to be. We must remember that a meager plan will fall short of perfect achievement,...
第 33 頁 - ... the Civic Center — that portion of the city which plays the most important part in civic life — is located at or near the geographical center. The Perimeter of Distribution From this inner circuit boulevard, run diagonal arteries to every section of the city and far into the surrounding country. Intersecting in the first place the periphery, or outer wall, they traverse in succession the various circuit boulevards, which represent in themselves the successive stages of the city's growth,...
第 38 頁 - would provide well for children who seldom know any life except that upon the streets of the city and would be the natural approach or connecting link between the larger parks and play grounds.
第 29 頁 - It is not to be supposed that all the work indicated can or ought to be carried out at once, or even in the near future. A plan beautiful and comprehensive enough for San Francisco can only be executed by degrees, as the growth of the community demands and as its financial ability allows.
第 199 頁 - declared to be the plan of the city in respect to the location and establishment of streets and avenues, and the reservation of squares and lots for public purposes," in that part of the city named in the ordinance.
第 35 頁 - These buildings, composed in esthetic and economic relation, should face on the avenue forming the perimeter of distribution, and on the radial arteries within, and in particular on the public Places formed by their intersection and should have on all sides extensive settings contributing to public rest and recreation and adapted to celebrations, fetes, etc.
第 29 頁 - A scheme of parks, streets and public grounds for a city, in order to be at once comprehensive and practical, should take into account the public purse of today and embrace those things that can be immediately carried into effect, but should in no wise limit itself to these. It should be designed not only for the present, but for all time to come. While prudence...
第 196 頁 - Clay street, two and one-half miles distant, in a southerly direction, from the center of Portsmouth square, on the west by a line parallel with Kearny street, two miles distant, in a westerly direction, from the center of Portsmouth square.