Roblin City a Baroque City Plan on Hudson Bay (1912) : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Roblin City a Baroque City Plan on Hudson Bay (1912) / Historical Maps of Manitoba
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| 説明 | Bruce, William. [Roblin City a Baroque City Plan on Hudson Bay 1912] [Facsimile]. 1:19,200. In: John Warkentin and Richard I. Ruggles. Manitoba Historical Atlas : a Selection of Facsimile Maps, Plans, and Sketches from 1612 to 1969. Winnipeg: Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba, 1969, p.374. This map exemplifies some town planning ideas which had occasionally been proposed during the nineteenth century in North America, and were still current after the turn of the century. The plan for a city at present Churchill, Manitoba, shows great baroque radial and circular streets, worked into an ambitious and pretentious overall design. It is paradoxical that stereotyped gridiron villages and towns were still being turned out on the Prairies, when far to the north on the bleak, cold, wind-torn shores of Hudson bay this residential city with abundant parks and promenades should be contemplated. The plan is fascinating, viewed as an exercise in studio design, but it is very unlikely, setting aside the absurdity of proposing such grandiose developments on the shores of Hudson Bay where there was little chance for urban growth, that the streets as drawn would have functioned effectively in carrying traffic. The best residential districts appear to be right next to the frigid water, with promenades next to a shore which is ice bound for most of the year. Elese where to old grid prevails, broken with some parks. The individual parks very in design, so that one gets the impression of many little individual isolated gems, but no overall integrated workable plan. Yet this is often characteristic of this kind of design. This map was drawn in 1912, during the time when prairie agriculture had just seen its greatest expansion and when there was hope that the railroad to the Bay would be shortly completed. Perhaps the naïve optimism apparent in the plan is partly related to the spirit of the times.(Warkentin and Ruggles. Historical Atlas of Manitoba. map 186, p. 374) |
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| 撮影者 | Historical Maps of Manitoba , Canada |
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