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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 2, 1948)
Poor Regional Planning Blamed Bv Baldinaer In Opening Lecture By MICHAEL CALLAHAN Checkerboard regional planning, an obsolete system that has led to poverty-stricken mountain farms, problems of swollen and congested traffic, and blighted slum areas, was blamed last night for much of America’s present economic hard ships. Dr. Wallace Baldinger, associate professor of art in the University, opened the “Currents of Creative Thought” lectures series in the Uni versity library with this summary of the effects of poor city and re gional planning upon our daily lives. “The entire nation has been laid out in rigid checkerboard pat terns,” Dr. Baldinger asserted, “and as a result even our houses are simply planted mechanically on grid patterns of streets, with no regard for such vital factors as sunlight, winds, or privacy.’’ Street planning has also suffered from the geometric concept of plan ning, according to Dr. Baldinger. Instead of being laid out with the greatest width where the heaviest traffic occurs, he said, the “even HOLIDAY The Most Talked About Pipe Mixture in America 1 . I Aromatic ia * the pack..* Aromatic ia i the pipe! I L- Holiday also comes in a 16 oz, T > Humi-Seal Glass Jar f Larus & Brother Company, Kiduuond, Virginia width lanes” have been wasteful in some quieter residential areas and have created fantastic traffic prob lems in business and campus areas. City blocks, under the same plan ning scheme, are cut up to yield as many street-frontage lots as the land will sustain. This has resulted in narrow, dark houses, perfect breeding areas for slum3, “It is possible for a city to be laid out artistically,” Dr. Baldinger declared. “A striking example of this is Washington, D. C., as planned by Pierre L'Enfante. Our national capitol was designed to be just that, and is beautifully or ganic in its classical lines.” Central park, in New York City, was given by Dr. Baldinger as an other example of art breaking the “cold mechanical grid canyon streets.” Chicago, in its long lakeside drives, and surrounding park belt illustrates the “halfway efforts to insure spaciousness and beauty,” he said. The great architect of Chi cago, Daniel Hudson Burnham, laid out these zones in a test of his theories of organic compactness surrounded by spacious natural areas. As a remedy to the grid plan, Dr. Baldinger offered the “biomorphic plan,” which calls for three basic and balanced elements in every community. First of these elements is a surrounding region of natural scenic beauty. Inside this undevel oped area would be the second "element,” a spacious rural com munity. This in turn would border on an “organic” suburban and com mercial section, evolved only after consideration of the local geograph ic structures. “The ideal of planners is to achieve compactness of design with no hint of predetermined spacing,” Dr. Baldinger said. “This has been achieved during the last two dec ades in the development of the Wil* HEAR DR. CLIFFORD LEWIS "OUR PRECIOUS SAVIOR" 11 a. m. Broadcast over KASII j Bible School at 9:45 a. m. 3 p.m. “30 REASONS WHY I BELIEVE CHRIST MAY COME SOON” 6:30 “MODERN YOUTH PROBLEMS” 7:30 “THE FIVE BIGGEST FOOLS IN EUGENE” Hear the Pomona College Glee Club Tues. 2-3 p. m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Broadway at High Dr- Y. Webster, Pastor Perpare ahead of tim efor those spring trips to the coast— Treat your cars to a complete checkup WALDERS Associated Service llth aiul Hilyard Music Honorary Installs Officers Mary Margaret Dundore, sopho more in music, was installed as president of Nu chapter of Mu Phi Epsilon, Tuesday night at Gerlin ger hall. Other newly installed officers are Faye Schick, vice president; Helen McFetridge, recording secretary; Shirley pay Williams, correspond ing secretary; Althadel Johns, treasurer; Lucretia Prentiss, his torian; Dorothea Schaer, warden; Virgene Lindley Roffe, chaplain; Helen Hudson, chorister; and Janet Kelsey, alumni secretary. Entertainment was presented by several members. Beverly Howard played two Shostakovitch Preludes, Jerine Newhouse sang and played “Laddie,” an old Scot melody, and Faye Schick played Cyril Scott’s “Lenco.” Rushing to Start Women interested in spring term rushing may sign up at the office of the dean of women beginning to day. lamette valley with its network of rivers and towns.” Three specific developments of the biomorphic plan were outlined by Dr. Baldinger. The English “gar den city plan,” which has been ap proved by the British government as the plan for 20 new cities now under construction, calls for a bal anced community. The flexible areas of the garden cities will sup port a population of 32,000 apiece on 1,000 acres of city property and 5,000 acres of agricultural land. These cities will have the addted feature of being nearly self-sup porting communities. The German “Bauhaus” school of architectural planning is the second major development of the biomorphic plan, Dr. Baldinger said. This outstanding engineering program would abandon city blocks as such and substitute varying widely spaced traffic ribbons. Chi cago now has this plan under con sideration for a possible cure for its ventilation problem, according to Dr. Baldinger. Henry Wright and Clarence Stein are the American city planners who have adopted a version of the biomorphic plan. Their projects, at Radburn, New Jersey, and in Pitts burgh’s Chatham village, are “pro gressive suburban communities de signed for the motor age.” The functionally-laid streets of these communities, according to Dr. Bal dinger, have completely eliminated traffic problems, light and air ob structions, and overcrowding in a way that is well worth study by other American towns. Dark horses are in such demand this year that the saliva test will be waived. REPAIRS • SALES For dependable, enjoyable day-to-day radio entertain ment . .. Let us check your radio reg ularly for needed repairs. 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