The Influence of Zoning on the Design of Public Utilities: A Symposium: The Influence of Zoning on the Design of the Street System

Zoning is part of a rather recent and refreshing phase of city planning practice, a phase in which city planners are relaxing rather hopeless efforts to remodel old cities to fit modern needs, and are turning to the more fruitful endeavor of making present-day requirements fit the cities. When the remodelling process has come up against a blank wall-and that is not a mere figure of speech-for further improvement, more intelligent and efficient use of the existing facilities has necessarily been sought. This is true particularly of streets and street traffic. After the utmost has been done in the removal of encroachments and the widening of pavements and there is no way of providing more roadway space except by taking property too costly to take, methods have been devised for handling increased traffic on the existing roadways, often with astonishing and creditable results.