Line 5.0.0 riew of bricks and stone and mortar, with

Line 5.0.1 the aims of the harbour intersecting It in

Line 5.0.2 different directions, the water seeming to lap

Line 5.0.3 the very doorsteps of the buildings. To one

Line 5.0.4 familiar with the Sydney of ten or twelve

Line 5.0.5 years ago the sight is a revelation. Where

Line 5.0.6 then wore extensive wastes of sand or rock

Line 5.0.7 and stunted bush aro now miles of streets

Line 5.0.8 lianked by houses, factories, and shops. Thd

Line 5.0.9 change is marvellous, The growth of tlio

Line 5.0.10 city 1ms been stupendous, and when one

Line 5.0.11 considers that this city contains one-third of

Line 5.0.12 the whole population of the millions of broad

Line 5.0.13 cries that comprise tlio State of New South

Line 5.0.14 Wales ho is impelled to wonder what would

Line 5.0.15 be the dimensions of the city if the rich

Line 5.0.16 country at its back — and the richness of the

Line 5.0.17 country is sufficiently demonstrated by the

Line 5.0.18 fact of its ability to keep the huge city in

Line 5.0.19 the way It does — were only peopled to half

Line 5.0.20 me extent of Its capabilities. What, then,

Line 5.0.21 will the Sydney of the future be? Can wo

Line 5.0.22 gain any idea from the experience of otlher

Line 5.0.23 C- lies'.'

Line 5.0.24 Take New York, for instance. Sydney is

Line 5.0.25 somewhaL in the same position as New York

Line 5.0.26 in that the business portion of the olty is

Line 5.0.27 built on a tongue of land, so that Its growth

Line 5.0.28 Is circumscribed. New York has grown sky

Line 5.0.29 wards. "The concentration of vast com

Line 5.0.30 mercial Interests has caused an enormous

Line 5.0.31 appreciation of land values," to quote John

Line 5.0.32 Foster Preset-, who points out that ground In

Line 5.0.33 the Wall-street neighbourhood costs

Line 5.0.34 about 30lklol. a square l'oot, which, with a

Line 5.0.35 depth of 100ft., would mean £0000 per foot

Line 5.0.36 frontage. "To build on the English plan,"

Line 5.0.37 he continues, "with huge foundations, stout

Line 5.0.38 masonry, and only some live storeys high,

Line 5.0.39 would mean enormous rents, and the pushing

Line 5.0.40 of sm illor firms 'up town' out of the busi

Line 5.0.41 ness area." Consequently business Now York

Line 5.0.42 lias Invnmo a city of skyscrapers. The tail-

Line 5.0.43 c-st of these is the Park Row building, which

Line 5.0.44 N ilv'l't. high. or more than twice the height

Line 5.0.45 of tile Sviney Post Office tower, and has,

Line 5.0.46 counting the cupola, 82 storeys. And the

Line 5.0.47 huiMing is supplied with a lift, or elevator,

Line 5.0.48 service, which provides for "through" traffic

Line 5.0.49 —elevators that do not stop between, say,

Line 5.0.50 the lSlli door and the ground— as well 'as

Line 5.0.51 local traffic.

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Line 5.0.53 "\ contractor told 1110," says the same au

Line 5.0.54 thor 'Ten years is the life of a building In

Line 5.0.55 New York. In 10 years of course It has not

Line 5.0.56 crumbled or bulged, nor does it look different

Line 5.0.57 jroni what it did when first built. But it has

Line 5.0.58 become antiquated. It Is only 12 storeys, a

Line 5.0.59 mere barn in height, and the proper height

Line 5.0.60 now is anything from 20 to 3U storeys. . . .

Line 5.0.61 1 hid pointed out to me a good hotel, built

Line 5.0.62 oui.v eight years before, with what aro called

Line 5.0.63 ah "the most modern improvements. It was

Line 5.0.64 being pulled down so that a building twice as

Line 5.0.65 hi,rh might be erected. 'You British,' said a

Line 5.0.66 iniui to me, 'use a thing till it becomes use

Line 5.0.67 less. We Americans uso a thing till we get

Line 5.0.68 something better. It doesn't mailer how good

Line 5.0.69 it is. or how much It cost, we just scra-p it

Line 5.0.70 when it Is out of date.' " In another place

Line 5.0.71 be s'tv.s, "If New York were not half sky

Line 5.0.72 scrapers and half scrap-heap of old sky

Line 5.0.73 scrapers New Yorkers would feel their busi

Line 5.0.74 ness enterprise had been paralysed. An Eng

Line 5.0.75 lishman builds for eternity. An American

Line 5.0.76 builds for 10 years. I-Io smiles at a man who

Line 5.0.77 thinks he knows what will be wanted 12

Line 5.0.78 years hence."

Line 5.0.79 Svdnov is similarly situated to New York.

Line 5.0.80 Its "business portion Is circumscribed, so that

Line 5.0.81 the only direction in which it can expand 13

Line 5.0.82 backwards, that Is, southwards. And as the

Line 5.0.83 ground space is daily becoming more valu

Line 5.0.84 able the same difficulty has to be met as was

Line 5.0.85 faced in New Y'ork. Will we follow the lead

Line 5.0.86 of the New Yorker? Can anyone Imagine

Line 5.0.87 the Hotel Australia being pulled down to

Line 5.0.88 build another twice as high? The problem is

Line 5.0.89 an Interesting one. and a "Sun" reporter ac

Line 5.0.90 cordingly sought the views of a few experts

Line 5.0.91 on the subject.

Line 5.0.92 GOVERNMENT ARCHITECT'S VIEWS

Line 5.0.93 Causeways Round the Water's Edge.

Line 5.0.94 "Well," said Mr. W. L. Vernon, the Govern

Line 5.0.95 ment Architect, "Sydney is certainly situated

Line 5.0.96 like New York. The city of New York proper

Line 5.0.97 is on a tongue of land between two water