Transportation problems 139 Control of lands adjacent to public improvements 139 Congested areas 151 Present borrowing and taxing powers 151 Conclusions 154 INDEX 157 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Bird’s-eye view, showing the location of Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan, together with the surrounding towns connected with the city by radiating arteries _Frontispiece_ Wood-cut of Chicago in 1834 1 The World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 2 The Court of Honor, showing effect of a uniform cornice line 3 Plan showing orderly arrangement of buildings 5 The Lake Front Park, original plan, 1896 6 Modified plan, 1904 7 The World’s Columbian Exposition; view of the Court of Honor, looking west 8 The Pyramids at Gizeh 9 The Acropolis at Athens 10 The Greek Theatre at Syracuse, Sicily 10 Plan showing Nero’s Circus at Rome (First Century), Basilica of St. Peter (Fourth Century), and the present Cathedral of St. Peter (Sixteenth Century) 11 An ancient Roman circus, near the Appian Way 12 The Ponte Molle, Rome 12 Transformation of the banks of the Seine in Paris 14 Chronological views of the Place de la Bastille, Paris 15 The transformation of Paris under Haussmann: plan showing the portion executed from 1854 to 1889 16 Paris. Plan proposed by M. Eugene Hénard for additional radial arteries and an inner circuit boulevard on which would front the principal existing administrative buildings and many public monuments 17 Vienna. City center, in 1857, showing the fortifications 19 City center, after transformations made by order of Francis Joseph in 1857 19 London. Plan of Aldwych and Kingsway connecting Holborn and the Strand 20