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Frank Lloyd Wright "The future of Architecture" page 166?

(from Metropolis see p 35. p 93)

"Necessity built the city when we had no swift universal means of transportation and had no means of communication except by various direct personal contacts. Then the city became naturally the great meeting place, the grand concourse, the immediate source of wealth and power in human intercourse. Only by congregating thus, the vaster the congregation the better, could the better fruits of human living then be had."

City planning by Robinson (see page 30)

1915

page 90

"Main thoroughfares express the elementary function of the street: the affording of means of communication. People might conceivably, live in a tradeless forest, but the moment they began to pass from shelter to shelter, or to carry food and firewood back and forth, that moment a path would be commenced - a street would have begun."

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page 15

More important than the origin of the rectangular street plan is the persistence in its use."

page 14

Herodotus states that Babylon was built four-square, with straight streets that were either parallels or at right angles to one another. The adoption of its plan is said to have been due to a woman, Queen Semiramis; but even this may not have been the origin of the rectangular street systems. Some Chinese towns, that are presumably two or three thousand years old, show rectangular plotting; and a comparatively recent excavation, revealing traces of the village occupied by workman who built the pyramid of Illahun, indicate that it also was "laid out symetrically [sic.] on rectangular lines."

page vii

"The term "street" is used ... to refer to the whole public space between the lines of the abutting property on either side - not the roadway only." This