Identifier: americanhomesga101913newy (find matches)
Title: American homes and gardens
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ries can be laidout. as they will be landing-stages foraeroplanes. When this progress shall have been ac-complished the physiognomy of towns willbe changed. All terraces will have becomelanding-stages for flying automobiles.Aviators will be able to fly from one terraceto another, starting and landing as theyplease. The natural consequence of thisnew state of things will be that each build-ing will have to be furnished with bigelevators capable of raising machines andtaking them back to the garage on their re-turn. Houses of this description will alsobe used to house motor-cars. Finally, the town of the future will betraversed by large radiatmg thorough faresoccupied partly by raised platforms con-tinually moving, which will insure rapklcommunication between the different zones.These platforms will be terminated by large-revolving crossways at the intersection ofthe main roads. Large parks and flowergardens as residences and pleasure resortswill be laid out in various parts of thetown.
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