Planning for City Traffic, Količina 133American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1927 - 264 strani |
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Stran 216 - For the purpose of promoting health, safety, morals, or the general welfare of the community, the legislative body of cities and incorporated villages is hereby empowered to regulate and restrict the height, number of stories and size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot that may be occupied, the size of yards, courts and other open spaces, the density of population, and the location and use of buildings, structures and land for trade, industry, residence or other purposes.
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Stran 115 - Lalxir for Labor Standards; second, the Director of the Bureau of Standards of the Department of Commerce; third, the Administrator of Consumer Protection and Environmental Health Service, Department of Health, Education and Welfare; fourth, the Director of the Bureau of Mines: a<nd fifth, the Director of the National Science Foundation.
Stran 40 - RESIDENCE STREETS Where residence streets carry a large amount of through traffic they are, in effect, thoroughfares and should be lighted as such. However, in every city there is a large percentage...
Stran 77 - In Rex v. Cross (3 Camp. 224), the defendant was indicted for allowing his coaches to remain an unreasonable time in a public street, and the court said : " Every unauthorized obstruction of a highway to the annoyance of the king's subjects is a nuisance. The king's highway is not to be used as a stable yard.
Stran 31 - Special equipment, construction, and maintenance costs are practically constant, depending little upon the size of the lamps used ; electrical energy and lamp renewals, the outstanding variables, contribute but a minor proportion of the total annual operating cost. This fact, coupled with the urgent need for better illumination because of traffic congestion and more liberal use of the streets at night, is responsible for the distinct trend toward the use of larger lamps in street lighting. Modern...
Stran 254 - The facts show both strong cyclical and seasonal movements in immigration and emigration and abundant evidence that when immigration is not restricted the character of the cyclical variations, at least, is closely similar to the cyclical variations in employment opportunity in the United States. A fairly close similarity is also found in the seasonal movements.
Stran 139 - Ellenborough, in sustaining a conviction said: "Every unauthorized obstruction of a highway to the annoyance of the king's subjects is an indictable offense. Upon the evidence given, I think the defendant ought clearly to be found guilty. The king's highway is not to be used as a stable yard.
Stran 85 - But the chief disadvantage of control by traffic officers is the lack of coordination. "It is impossible for an officer to coordinate his work with the efforts of officers on all four sides of him one block away. This limitation can be quickly grasped if one will imagine all four officers at intersections surrounding the one in question, releasing a stream of traffic at such a time that all four streams arrive at the corner in question at the same time. The importance of this inability to coordinate...
Stran 138 - ... the parking and storage of automobiles, and the facilitation of street traffic and transportation.