Identifier: gardencitiesinth01senn (find matches)
Title: Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Sennett, Alfred Richard
Subjects: Garden cities
Publisher: London, Bemrose
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he quietude one may enjoywithin them. Wooden floors of the ordinary con-struction supported upon wooden joists or rafters, as they are sometimes erroneously called,act in a precisely analogous manner to the sound-boards of pianos ; every sound made above isamplified and reproduced below. To prevent thisgreat defect, various expedients have been resortedto, as, for example, putting in a complete dampingdiaphragm by connecting the joists together atabout half their depth by an open flooring ofsmall battens, and then filling up the whole of theupper space with plaster. Even this is but apoorly efficient antidote, whereas the solid concreteconstruction is, under all normal conditions, noise-less. * In cases where a large number of dwellings are to be builtin order to combine variety with economy, the plan has beenadopted of having various types, and building a number off eachset of drawings, but subsequently so dotted about amid othertypes that their similarity becomes unnoticeable. 284 B
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■s G a o O I CITY DWELLINGS Combine in the household all that makes the house healthywith all that makes the house beautiful. So shall body andmind be alike wholesomely nourished, and alike fitted for longand happy life.—B. W. Richardson. The health and happiness of a community and, itin a great measure follows, its prosperity, is largelydependent upon the dwellings inhabited. Perfectmunicipal sanitation could avail little if the sanitaryconditions obtaining within the homes beat fault.Now, on what do the sanitary conditions of house-hold dwellings depend ? Neglecting considerationsof nature of soil, surface drainage, and suchlike,all of which have been, or will be, looked after inthe selection of the site of the town and its prepara-tion for habitations, they depend upon (a) the mannerin which the dwellings are built, (b) the skill withwhich the architect may have assimilated his artwith the principles of science involved, and (c) thehabits of the dwellers. The last I venture to

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