Saturday, July 14, 2018

Allentown, Pennsylvania

The text accompanying this diagram does not elaborate any further on this particular feature of the 'Modification'. A quick scan of the map of Allentown suggests this proposal was not acted upon (but that there are many 'H' blocks). This gives no particular clue either except to affirm Allentown's status as a city of broken dreams.

George B. Ford/Ralph F. Warner, editors for the Committee on Town Planning of the American Institute of Architects City Planning Progress in the United States 1917 Journal of AIA Washington DC 1917 p 7
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