![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The 10th Edition Encyclopedia Britannica describes a different planet, really. It was published in MCMII, or 1902 for the Roman-numeral challenged. There's a lot of sound good sense in there, much of which appears to have been forgotten, or made impossible, in the intervening century:
-- Railways, Vol 32.
This was in support, essentially, of the idea of a good public transport network, an idea that Dublin is only reluctantly arriving at again.
"In ideal conditions the homes of the people, and especially the poor, must be in the country. Air, light, low rent, ground to till, and wholesome recreation for children can only be had by scattering the working population of a city into the surrounding country to sleep..."
-- Railways, Vol 32.
This was in support, essentially, of the idea of a good public transport network, an idea that Dublin is only reluctantly arriving at again.
Tags: