Report On The Improvement Of The City Of Dubuque Iowa

Author : Charles Mulford Robinson
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ISBN 13 : 9781332189038
Total Pages : 42 pages
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Download or read book Report on the Improvement of the City of Dubuque, Iowa (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Mulford Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on the Improvement of the City of Dubuque, Iowa Dubuque would thus seem to be the city of cities for a comprehensive and beautiful park system. Yet there is not even a park commission, and the "park" possessions of the city are confined to a couple of little triangles at street intersections, and two little city squares - good enough of their kind, with the brightening flowers and the play of light and shade on the tree dotted lawns; but exercising none of the recreative functions of a municipal park system, and with the radius of their aesthetic influence not extending beyond the property directly abutting upon them. They are squares such as any town on the prairie might have, for no beauty of bluff or river has been set aside for the people, and view points have been parted with for what they would bring. The citizen who would enjoy the beauty that should be the right of those who live in Dubuque is compelled to trespass on private property. To these anomalous conditions there must be added, as a handicap to their prompt correction, the fact that the city has not a great deal of money to spend for other than the most commonplace improvement purposes - of which the need is still considerable - and that it is one in which a mortgaging of the future by a long term bond issue for park requirements ought to be undertaken with conservatism. Obviously a peculiarly interesting and difficult problem is presented. Here is a city in great need of parks; a city exceptionally endowed by nature with opportunities for very beautiful and varied popular pleasure grounds, a city that has practically nothing to start with in the way of park possessions and that must measure its undertakings not by the opportunities offered, but by its capacity to pay for them to buy lands and then to develop and maintain them. It would be very easy to picture the scenically ideal Dubuque; but such a report would have no practical value. 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.