Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from City Improvement From the Artistic Standpoint: An Address
In Europe, in japan and in other countries these avenues of trees extend from city to city. They are planted not only for beauty but because of the shade and the shelter from the storm which they afford the traveler, and because the moisture which they preserve on the road has proven to be good economy in the maintenance of it.
Hedges are more beautiful than fences. They need relatively little care and in a very short while become a real economy.
But planting is not the only artistic consideration in laying out an avenue - the proportions of the width of the road bed of an avenue to its sidewalks, and the treatment of the road bed and the sidewalks, the number of rows of trees, their character and height and spacing, the breaking of the avenues at stated points for cross avenues or lanes, the introduction of architectural features, statuary, vases, terraces, pergolas, occasional formal treatment of gardens, shrubbery or ?owers, and where possible in the proximity of water, the harmonious treatment of the driveway and the water, so as to obtain the re?ection of the landscape in the water, the introduction of bridges with proper approaches, the.cutti11g out of vistas at special points, and the placing of important objects of interest in the line of these vistas or in the line of an avenue, are all important. It is possible with careful study and discrimination to make color even an accessory to the development of every kind of landscape, whether in the choice of different colors of foliage, which will often help to lengthen a perspective or to accent a feature or whether in the color of the buildings, approaches and accessories.
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