A Public Building Group Plan for St. Louis: The City Plan Commission, St. Louis, Missouri (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Public Building Group Plan for St. Louis: The City Plan Commission, St. Louis, Missouri The character of our cities is becoming increasingly an index of the state of our national civilization. In the matter of public buildings, therefore, as well as in other forms Of municipal work, it behooves the city to so plan and design its public structures that these may faithfully and fittingly depict the civic spirit. 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.