 There is no place in New York where a stately building can be looked up to from base to turret, none where it can even be seen full in the face and all at once taken in by the eye; none where it can be viewed in advantageous perspective. . . . Such distinctive...  The Modern City and Its Problems - Stran 197avtor: Frederic C. Howe - 1915 - 390 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Charles Mulford Robinson - 1903 - 400 strani
...yards in extent, from north to south, the system forbids that it shall be built in New York. . . . There is no place in New York where a stately building...Such distinctive advantage of position as Rome gives St. Peter's, Paris the Madeleine, London St. Paul's, New York, under her system, gives to nothing.... | |
 | Charles Mulford Robinson - 1904 - 576 strani
...yards in extent, from north to south, the system forbids that it shall be built in New York. . . . There is no place in New York where a stately building...Such distinctive advantage of position as Rome gives St. Peter's, Paris the Madeleine, London St. Paul's, New York, under her system, gives to nothing.... | |
 | Harry Inigo Triggs - 1909 - 426 strani
...sixty-six yards in extent from north to south, the system forbids that it shall be built in New York. . . . There is no place in New York where a stately building...Such distinctive advantage of position as Rome gives St. Peter's, London St. Paul's, New York under her system gives to nothing." The city of Philadelphia,... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - 1916 - 522 strani
...edifices. The result, as Frederick Law Olmsted has pointed out, is that New York City affords "no place where a stately building can be looked up to from...where it can be viewed in advantageous perspective." In all fairness to the commissioners of 1807 it should be added, however, that they did make liberal... | |
 | John Nolen - 1919 - 156 strani
...sixty-six yards in extent from north to south, the system forbids that it shall be built in New York. . . . There is no place in New York where a stately building...Such distinctive advantage of position as Rome gives St. Peter's, London St. Paul's, New York under her system gives to nothing." A combination of the radial... | |
 | Charles Mulford Robinson - 2004 - 466 strani
...yards in extent, from north to south, the system forbids that it shall be built in New York. . . . There is no place in New York where a stately building...Such distinctive advantage of position as Rome gives St. Peter's, Paris the Madeleine, London St. Paul's, New York, under her system, gives to nothing.... | |
 | John Conron - 2010 - 484 strani
...sixty-six yards, and there is no room for sufficient open space in which to set it: "no place . . . where a stately building can be looked up to from...where it can be viewed in advantageous perspective. The few tolerable NOTES 335 sites for noble buildings north of Grace Church and within the built part... | |
 | 1903 - 642 strani
...yards in extent, from north to south, the system forbids that it shall be built in New York. * * * There is no place in New York where a stately building...Such distinctive advantage of position as Rome gives St. Peter's, Paris the Madeleine, London, St. Paul's, New York, under her system, gives to nothing."... | |
 | 1911 - 466 strani
...There is no place in New York where a stately building can be looked up to from base to turret, pone where It can even be seen full In the face and all at once taken in by the eye, none where lt can be viewed in advantageous perspective. The few tolerable sites for noble buildings North of... | |
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