Download or read book The Architectural Record, Vol. 12 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-23 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Architectural Record, Vol. 12: A Monthly Magazine of Architecture and the Allied Arts and Crafts; May, June, August, September, October, November, December 1902 And then the report goes on to point out the bad, in some re spects the really awful social conditions caused or aggravated by the deep lot, the Procrustean unit of space which is itself a corol lary of the Procrustean two hundred foot block. The report was a vigorous and in part an effective protest against extending to a terrain still more varied and uneven than that of Manhattan Isl and, the application, in complete disregard of the lay of the land, of the equable reticulation which has for its only possible purpose the impossible attempt to make all parts of a great city equally convenient for all uses. And for its necessary result the making of all almost equally inconvenient for all uses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.