Boston has developed the most extensive park system in America, at a cost of $33,000,000, and is creating on the Charles River a tidal basin which bids fair to rival any similar work in Europe. A state commission is now studying means to relieve congestion in the city, and to extend its commercial facilities. New York is struggling with many isolated works of improvement spread over the broad domain of that city’s activities; Baltimore is seeking to use the opportunity presented by a great fire to introduce order and symmetry in her street system, and also to create a connected park system; and the citizens of St. Louis have prepared and presented a city plan for the grouping of municipal buildings, for an inner and an outer park system, for civic centers comprising small parks and playgrounds, museums, branch libraries, and like public buildings.[13] San Francisco, even before the great earthquake and fire of April, 1906, was already working on a comprehensive plan to promote, in every practical way, the beautifying of the streets, parks, squares, and public places of the city; to bring to the attention of public officials and the citizens the best methods of instituting artistic municipal betterments; to stimulate the sentiment of civic pride in the improvement and care of private property; and, in short, to make San Francisco a more agreeable city in which to live. This latter movement resulted in a comprehensive city plan which has been adopted by the general committee of citizens and by the Board of Supervisors.[14] [Illustration: XXXII. PLAN FOR A SUMMER CAPITAL OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, AT BAGUIO. Submitted to the Philippine Commission by D. H. Burnham, 1905.] Philadelphia is cutting a great parkway from Logan Square to Fairmount Park, with the expectation of extending the thoroughfare to the City Hall; is acquiring extensive additions to its large parks; and is planning for the grouping of its present buildings. Minneapolis and St. Paul have made common cause in the creation of parkways, and the last-named city is bent on securing adequate approaches for the newly completed state capitol.[15] From Providence and Hartford in the East, to Kansas City and on to Seattle in the West, the city planning is in full progress. The South also has felt the new impulse. Annapolis, the capital of Maryland, was laid out on lines strikingly similar to those embodied in Sir Christopher Wren’s scheme for London; and the plan of Williamsburg, the colonial capital of Virginia, suggests the locations adopted for the Capitol and White House at Washington; so that the new plans for Roanoke, Virginia, seem like the discovery of a lost art.