Excerpt from Replanning Small Cities: Six Typical Studies But with small cities, cities with a population ranging from 2, 500 to the case is difierent. Comprehensive planning or re planning may be to them of far-reaching and permanent service. There is scarcely anything in the smaller places that may not be changed. In small cities, for example, railroad approaches may be set right; grade crossings eliminated; water-fronts redeemed for commerce or recreation, or both; open spaces acquired even in built up sections. A satisfactory street plan can be carried out, and ade quate highways established; public buildings can be grouped in at least an orderly way; and a park system, made up of well-distributed and well-balanced public grounds, can be outlined for gradual and systematic development. All of these civic elements, indispensable sooner or later to a progressive community, may be had in the small city with relative ease and at slight cost. As we have given, here tofore, too much attention to caring for the mere wreckage of so ciety, and too little toward establishing a better social order that would permanently reduce the amount of that wreckage, so we have expended too much of our energy in almost futile consideration of the ills that afflict our great cities, instead of providing against an unnecessary repetition of those self-same ills in cities that are to-day small. There is a close analogy between the ease with which a child may be improved as compared to an adult, and a small city as compared to a large city. The president of one of our universi ties said recently, that as a boy, in common with the other boys of his time, he believed that young turtles contained every kind of meat. In one part of the young turtle was chicken, in another beef, in another ham, and so on; but old turtles contained only tur tle meat. SO with small cities. Potentially almost every improve ment is possible to them. They still hold out a variety of oppor tunities. Each part may be changed so as to serve well its purpose. 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.