The Metropolis of Tomorrow by Hugh Ferriss

Author:Hugh Ferriss
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486139449
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-07-17T16:00:00+00:00

CROWDING TOWERS

TO THE SKYSCRAPING HEIGHTS of the Future City, the popular fancy usually adds something remarkable in the way of overhead traffic avenues. Scores of drawings have been produced, showing viaducts at the twentieth floor! Indeed, in some sketches, architectural values have been so completely neglected as to show the taller towers connected at their very pinnacles by a network of aerial traffic bridges which would infallibly cast their gloomy shadow permanently on the city beneath.

Following such leads, one might easily imagine, as in the accompanying drawing, that all “set-backs” of buildings have been aligned and made into automobile highways. One could drive at will across the façades of buildings, at the fifth, tenth, fifteenth or twentieth story. Automobiles below one, automobiles above one! A paradise, perhaps, for the automobile manufacturer! But for the office worker—less and less escape from the noise, the rush and the atmosphere of traffic.

Furthermore, there will be the aeroplanes. The drawing suggests tower-hangars in whose shelves they will—why not?—land neatly!

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