"For those who prefer to live in communities or small towns, we have preliminary plans for a Model City to accommodate a population of about thirty thousand, to be located if possible across a river not wider than 150 feet. Each family will get free, one of our constructed furnished, air-conditioned and fireproofed homes. The houses will be built so that additional bedrooms may easily be attached and furnished with the latest mechanical and electrical fixtures and appliances.
"The house will be on a seventy-five foot (front) by one hundred fifty-foot-plot, the front facing a twenty-foot deep lawn alongside a six-foot concrete walk. Beyond the walk will be a forty-foot landscaped parkway between rows of nicely pruned trees, with flower beds and a children's playground. Opposite will be another concrete walk, lawn and house, so that the houses will be ninety-two feet apart, with lawns and flower beds also on the side of buildings. Block lengths will be fifteen hundred feet, with a width of four hundred and forty-two feet. There will be twenty houses on each side of a parkway in a block.
"In the rear of these houses there will be enough space for a small garden patch, a small helicopter, airplane landing area, a small fireproofed chicken coop, and a garage for a jeep station wagon. These spaces will face a fifty-foot back street fenced on both sides and sunken ten feet below the surface. The sunken back streets will be used only for mobile traffic, with underpasses and tunnels every two blocks or three thousand feet apart for turning and reaching parallel streets.
"All sewer lines, gas lines, hot and cold water lines, telephone, electric, and steam conduits will be located in these back or alley streets, supplying utilities from the rear into the homes. All automobile, bicycle, bus, truck, and horse traffic will not be allowed on the surface. All pedestrians will be able to walk and cross everywhere on the surface streets or parkways within the city limits, with their eyes closed, in perfect safety.
"All deliveries will be made from the rear. Our motto will be utmost safety. No one will obtain a driver's or a pilot's license before he has been proven trustworthy; his training will be severe and his skill thorough, before he is licensed. No leniency will be permitted in our safety rulings. Speed travel will be strictly controlled.
"The city will be formed like a large square, with residential homes on all four comers and sides. It will contain four zones, and each zone will be divided into three districts. Each zone will have its own hospital, churches, community houses, and schools. Within the exact center along both sides of the river, we expect to locate our public parks, artificial lakes and waterfalls; artistic bridges will span the river at every street. There will be parks, where we will congregate for rest and to hear our symphony orchestra, and facilities for all city activities. All large buildings will have roof landing fields for helicopters, with auto parking garages under their surface.
"Manufacturing, mechanical shops, plants for electrical and other utilities, and all other craft shops will be located outside the city limits.
"In our survey for a small city of thirty thousand, we find that for the good care and health of our inhabitants we will make provisions for at least one permanent hospital bed for fifty of our people, or six hundred hospital beds for the city. At least six hundred medical doctors, an equal number of nurses, one hundred fifty dentists, fifty chiropodists, and fifty optometrists will be required in the city, and additional ones will be needed by our rural population.
"In a western city of the same size, there are now only about forty-seven physicians, twenty-two dentists, four chiropodists, ten optometrists, and but two hospitals with a total of two hundred beds in both of them.
"We do not approve of the wantonly extravagant and wasteful methods now used by owners of industrial and commercial enterprises, their innumerable competitive undertakings in the same lines.