"All deliveries will be made from the rear. Our motto will be utmost
safety. No one will obtain a driver's or a pilot's license before he
has been proven trustworthy; his training will be severe and his skill
thorough, before he is licensed. No leniency will be permitted in our
safety rulings. Speed travel will be strictly controlled.
"The city will be formed like a large square, with residential homes
on all four comers and sides. It will contain four zones, and each
zone will be divided into three districts. Each zone will have its own
hospital, churches, community houses, and schools. Within the exact
center along both sides of the river, we expect to locate our public
parks, artificial lakes and waterfalls; artistic bridges will span the
river at every street. There will be parks, where we will congregate
for rest and to hear our symphony orchestra, and facilities for all
city activities. All large buildings will have roof landing fields for
helicopters, with auto parking garages under their surface.
"Manufacturing, mechanical shops, plants for electrical and other
utilities, and all other craft shops will be located outside the city
limits.
"In our survey for a small city of thirty thousand, we find that for
the good care and health of our inhabitants we will make provisions
for at least one permanent hospital bed for fifty of our people, or
six hundred hospital beds for the city. At least six hundred medical
doctors, an equal number of nurses, one hundred fifty dentists, fifty
chiropodists, and fifty optometrists will be required in the city, and
additional ones will be needed by our rural population.
"In a western city of the same size, there are now only about
forty-seven physicians, twenty-two dentists, four chiropodists, ten
optometrists, and but two hospitals with a total of two hundred beds in
both of them.
"We do not approve of the wantonly extravagant and wasteful methods
now used by owners of industrial and commercial enterprises, their
innumerable competitive undertakings in the same lines.
"We propose to considerably save on them by concentrating our
industries and not multiplying them in competition with each other. We
believe in the economy of large size establishments, saving us valuable
time, and abundance of material, and considerable labor.
"We propose to have four large markets, each to be located in the
center nearest its zone, and every one of us in our district will be
allowed only two specified days per week to do our shopping.
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