TOWN-PLANNING IN ANCIENT DAYS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 295, 2 September 1918, Page 9

TOWN-PLANNING IN ANCIENT DAYS

Town-planning-is much-in .the air hist 'now. The committee of the Terrace Day Red Cross Shop ; have arranged wjtli Mr. 13. Hurst Seager, who represented New' Zealand at the recent Town-Planning Conference at Brisbane, which was attended by representatives of all the Australian States, to give a lecture in aid of the Red Cross Fund in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall next Saturday on the . "TownPlanning of the Ancients." The lecturo, which will be under the patronage of Their Excellencies the GovernorGeneral and Lady Liverpool, and will be illustrated hy a series of fine views, will compare the different schemes of town-planning adopted by the ancients from the palmy days of Egypt to medieval times. Mr. Hurst Seager is an .experienced lecturer, with a vivid power of description, who has travelled widely and describes from first-hand knowledge the buildings and towns dealt with. Tho grandeur of tho temples and tombs of Luxor and Karnak, the villas showing the degree of comfort and luxury attained by tho landed proprietors in ancient Lgypt, the excavations at Crete and the Hall of the Lnbrys, the Labyrinth of the Minotaur, the Cyclopean masonry- of Mycenae, its Acropolis, with palaces, houses, tombs, and cemetery, and artistic jewellery found there, the sequence of cities on the site of Troy,, tile. spectacular effect of the Assyrian l Palace of Khorsabad, "the Hall of a Hundred Columns" of Darius at Persepolis, recall famous events in history.