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NEW IDEALS IN THE PLANNING OF
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Bridge Across the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Mo. This bridge was a factor in the civic isolation of East St. Louis. Although built to relieve St. Louis from high freight rates, citizens refused for years to vote for the completion of the Free Bridge, fearing railroad control of the Illinois approach.
cities, but especially to the new civic spirit. Public opinion on this subject is at last aroused. Throughout the United States, civic, commercial and other organizations have undertaken to cope vigorously with the problem of improving cities. In the awakening to the imperative need of a different and better method of city making, the United States is following the precedent of other nations. Continental European cities decades ago, and English and South American cities more recently, changed radically their municipal regulations and their methods of building cities. The splendid
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