Excerpt from The Prospects for Building Construction in American Cities Since the outbreak Of the war in 1914 a great Shortage Of building construction has been accumulating in this country. When war was declared, in the summer Of 1914, business was depressed and less than the normal amount Of new building was being done. In 1915 business recovery was under way and the amount Of building construction increased in that and the fol lowing year, but not in sufficient volume to meet current needs. 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.