 At my feet lay a great city. Miles of broad streets, shaded by trees and lined with fine buildings, for the most part not in continuous blocks but set in larger or smaller inclosures, stretched in every direction. Every quarter contained large open squares...  Looking Backward, 2000-1887 - Сторінка 52автори: Edward Bellamy - 1888 - 470 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Edward Bellamy - 1888 - 514 стор.
...flights of stairs and then up a shorter one, which landed us upon a belvedere on the housetop, "lie pleased to look around you," he said, as we reached...stretched in every direction. Every quarter contained iarge open squares filled with trees, among which statues glistened and fountains flashed in the late... | |
 | Edward Bellamy - 1895 - 136 стор.
...two flights of stairs and then up a shorter one, which landed us upon a belvedere on the house top. " Be pleased to look around you," he said as we reached...smaller enclosures, stretched in every direction. Kvery quarter contained large open squares filled with trees, among which statues glistened and fountains... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1908 - 478 стор.
...Dr. Leete led the way up three flights of stairs to the house-top. A new Boston burst upon his gaze! Miles of broad streets shaded by trees and lined with fine buildings, open squares filled with sparkling fountains, and statues gleaming amongst the shrubbery, public buildings... | |
 | Edward Bellamy - 1917 - 368 стор.
...said, as we reached the platform, " and tell me if this is the Boston of the nineteenth century." [_At my feet lay a great city. Miles of broad streets,...in continuous blocks but set in larger or smaller inclosures, stretched in every direction. Every quarter contained large open squares filled with trees,... | |
 | Thomas S. Hines - 1979 - 470 стор.
...influence was once again confirmed. IX The Prom1se of Urban Plann1ng The San Francisco Plan of 1905 At my feet lay a great city. Miles of broad streets, shaded by trees and lined with fine buildings . . . stretched in every direction. Every quarter contained large open squares filled with trees, along... | |
 | E. C. Relph - 1987 - 876 стор.
...efficient society is housed in an equally well-ordered landscape. Boston in the year 2000 consists of miles of broad streets, shaded by trees and lined...continuous blocks but set in larger or smaller enclosures . . . every quarter contained large open squares filled with trees . . . public buildings of a colossal... | |
 | Elizabeth Wilson - 1992 - 216 стор.
...discredited. Bellamy's description of Boston in the year 2000 was the description of a City Beautiful: At my feet lay a great city. Miles of broad streets,...quarter contained large open squares filled with trees, along which statues glistened and fountains flashed in the late-afternoon sun. Public buildings of... | |
 | Carl Smith - 2008 - 441 стор.
...awakens to discover a Boston very different from his own and which resembles George's ideal urban center: At my feet lay a great city. Miles of broad streets,...in continuous blocks but set in larger or smaller inclosures, stretched in every direction. Every quarter contained large open squares filled with trees,... | |
 | James M. Lindgren - 1995 - 257 стор.
...progressivism. Gone were its "ancient landmarks" and narrow lanes. Instead, he saw "a great city" with "miles of broad streets, shaded by trees and lined with fine buildings." Modern Bostonians, moreover, cared little for antique furniture, silver, or hand-me-downs from earlier... | |
 | Joseph J. Corn, Brian Horrigan - 1996 - 192 стор.
...the year 2000. Escorted by his host to a rooftop, the urban vista changes his mind: At my feet ¡ay a great city. Miles of broad streets, shaded by trees and lined with fine buildings . . . stretched in every direction. Every quarter contained ¡arge open squares filled with trees,... | |
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