4.5. Congress. Senate, BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,
UNITED STATES SENATE

ON THE

SUBJECT OF CITY PLANNING

Reported by Mr. SMOOт, from the Committee on Printing
MARCH 11, 1910.—Ordered to be printed

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1910

CONTENTS.

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Statement of Mr. Benjamin Clarke Marsh.........

Statement of Allan D. Albert, jr., of Washington, D. C

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List of data as part of the presentation of the need for City Planning in Wash-

ington.

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Prices paid for land for municipal and federal purposes in the District of Colum-

bia compared with the assessed valuation....

Certain bills and briefs for improving the present methods of assessing land,

taxing land, and acquiring land for public purposes....

Methods of taxation of land and municipal land ownership in continental

countries...

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National Conference on City Planning, Washington, D. C., May 21 and 22, 1909.

Programme.

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Building regulations as to height and proportion of site that may be covered

in foreign and American states and cities..

General statement regarding Washington..

Letter from Hon. James Bryce, British Ambassador to the United States, read

at the opening Conference of the First National Conference on City Planning,

in Washington..

Address by Henry Morgenthau on City Planning.

Address by Benjamin C. Marsh on City Planning

Address by Gen. George M. Sternberg, U. S. Army, on Housing Conditions in

Washington

The Scope and Results of City Planning in Europe. Mr. Frederic Law Olmsted.

The Scope of City Planning in the United States. Mr. Frederic L. Ford..

What Is Needed in American City Planning? Mr. John Nolen...

Some of the Needs of City Planning in America. Mr. Robert Anderson Pope...

Practical Planning of Residential Streets. Mr. George B. Ford...

Discussion by Andrew Wright Crawford of the papers of Mr. Olmsted and Mr.

Ford.

Statement Regarding City Planning in Cleveland. Mr. Munson A. Havens..

Brief account of the city planning improvements of Boston. Mr. Arthur A.

Shurtleff..

What Has Been Accomplished in City Planning in Philadelphia. Mr. Andrew

Wright Crawford..

Permanent City Plan Commission. Mr. J. Q. Adams

City Planning in Denver and Los Angeles. Mr. Charles Mulford Robinson..

Remarks by Hon. Francis G. Newlands...

City Planning in Pittsburg. Mr. Allen T. Burns.

What Has Been Accomplished in City Planning in Baltimore City. Mr. Josiah

Pennington, Secretary of the Municipal Arts Society of Baltimore.

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Remarks by Hon. Julius Kahn..

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Report on City Planning in Chicago. Mr. George E. Hooker

Address by Hon. Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives..

Address by Commissioner Macfarland

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Address by Mrs. V. G. Simkhovitch..

Economic Aspects of City Planning. Mr. Benjamin C. Marsh.

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Address on the "Boston 1915" Movement. Mr. J. Randolph Coolidge..

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