GIANT CITY SCHEME

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 709, 8 July 1929, Page 2

GIANT CITY SCHEME

AMERICAN PLAN INVOLVES £600,000,000 HOUSING AND ROADING A grandiose scheme, the execution of which will cost approximately £600,000,000, has been prepared to enable 20,000,000 people to live comfortably and travel quickly and freely in and about Greater New York of the future. The preparation of the scheme has itself involved an expenditure of £200,000 by the Russell Sage tion, which was incorporated in IW* by the late Mrs. Russell Sage, the famous philanthropist, for the "ftfr provement of the social and living conditions of the United States.” The scheme, or “regional plan,” as it is called, is the fruit of seven years of study and investigation by 150 eminent engineers, architects, economists and city planners. It is now embodied in two bulky volumes and a vast collection of charts and maps. Its outlines were explained and its general principles accepted at a great meeting attended by the Governors of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, and by representatives of 22 counties and 435 town and villages within the borders of those States. The experts responsible for tb e scheme calculate that Greater York will have 20,000,000 inhabitants by 1965. Their proposal is that al* improvements in the numerous communities which it embraces shall he designed and carried out in consonance with a general plan. Greater New York of the future, *5 planned by them, covers an of 5,528 square miles. I Altogether 500 separate proposal j are put forward, embracing a highway system, a scientifically l* l out railway plan, new bridges, a®® tunnels across the Hudson, Harlem, and East Rivers, an elaborate series of parks, and for 46 airports to ta* ? care of future airplane transportation*