City planning -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
Planting, for Lake Shore drive, 38;
winter effects should be studied, 78.
Play grounds, need of, 35, 45;
on Lake Front, 51.
Pleasant Prairie, 40.
Plutarch, his description of the works of Pericles, 11.
Poles, disfigurement of streets by, 84.
Police Headquarters, part of the civic center group, 116.
Police power, extent of, 128, 140.
Population, density of in Chicago, 48, 115.
Post-office, 68, 76;
new building for, 117.
Potomac Park, Washington, 49.
Potomac, treatment of banks of, 110.
President’s House, (White House) the, 23.
Providence, R. I., improvement of, 28.
Public Health Department, 116.
Public Libraries, 35.
Public Library, possible location for in Grant Park, 114.
Public Schools, 35.
Public service plans for heating, lighting and power, 76.
Public Works, department of, 115.
Pullman, 58.
Pyramids of Gizeh, 10.
Q
Quebec, a fortified city, 9.
R
Railway stations, treatment of, 36, 42;
in Europe, 70;
embellishment of, 77;
grouping of on Canal and Twelfth Streets, 110, 116.
Railways, dependence of Chicago on, 61;
congestion of traffic, 62;
necessity for improved terminals, 62;
necessity of combination among to secure Chicago terminals, 62, 121;
electrification of, 106; cost of scheme for terminals, 122
(see also Transportation).
Real Estate Board of Chicago, report of on Michigan Avenue, 101.
Recreation piers, 68, 115.
Residence streets, 83, 91.
Revere Beach, bathing at, 38, 49.
Richmond Park, near London, 48.
Ringstrasse, the, Vienna, 20.
River Forest, 55.
Riverside, 40, 55.
Riverside Drive, New York, 110.
Rivers, transformation of banks of, 116.
Riviera, the, 51.
Roads, John Alvord’s paper on, 39 (note);
in Buena Park, 39;
from Versailles to Chartier, 39;
English and French roads, 39;
value of good roads to the community, 39;
in Los Angeles, 39;
in Illinois, 39;
an adjunct of Chicago life, 40.
Roanoke, Va., improvement of, 29.
Robey, 41.
Rogers Park, 130.
Roman Law, unifying force of, 13.
Rome, growth of, 1;
possessed elements that characterize the modern city, 11;
parks and gardens of, 12;
rejuvenation of, 13;
baths, 13;
the Forum, 13, 117, 20;
suburbs, 34;
aqueducts, 72;
railway stations, 87.
Royal British Institute of Architects, 21 (note).
Rouen, 90.
Rue de la Paix, Paris, 15.
Rue de Rivoli, Paris, opened by Napoleon, 15.
S
Sag Valley, 56.
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, opinion of architect’s meeting for the
World’s Fair, 6 (note);
statue of Lincoln, 112.
Salt Creek, 55.
Sandwich, 40.
San Francisco, comprehensive plan for, 28.
Scheldt, the, 110.
Schools, location of on highways, 39, 98.
Seattle, improvement of, 29.
Seine, the, 51, 110.
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