Excerpt from Annual Report of the Board of Survey, for the Year 1893 There are two ways of laying out cities. One is by adding to and extending existing streets and establishing local streets as the demands of building require. The other is by providing a general plan as a basis for further develop ment - to the end that all new streets when laid out shall form parts of a comprehensive scheme which shall subserve the public as well as private interests. The first method has been tried by the city of Boston with most unsatisfactory results. The second method has been adopted and is now in practical Operation through the work of the Board of Survey. Sufficient progress has already been made to demonstrate its superiority over the old method, and the wisdom of the change is now 'generally conceded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.