The Reconstruction of Moscow

entail some inconvenience both for Vehicular transport itself and for pedestrians. In these cases boulevards 15 to 20 metres wide will be laid out in the middle of the street. Paths for cycling as well as for ski-ing and skating in winter will be laid out along these boulevards. The question of the width of streets has been presen- ted here only from the point of view of transportation be- cause transportation is the prime factor to be considered in determining the width. But it would be incorrect to,

confine oneself to merely the transportation aspect of the case. A street is more than an artery for tran- sportation. The layout of a street and its width are influ- enced by many other phases of town-planning. Architecture in particular plays a very im- portant part in this matter, since a street of a socialist city must represent an integral architectural

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