- 9
TWO STRIPS
The most densely built up areas will extend in
-
56
two strips about 1,000 to 2,000 feet wide, a narrower one along the whole water front (as is to be expected in a port city), and the second one in a curve which starts near the north western corner of the community and turns
down to the water front to reach it near its centre.
This latter strip follows the Lot Chung Sun Highway and
the abandoned embankment originally made for the railroad,
but which will be used as a highway.
Near the centre of the bund an opening is pro-
vided through the quay wall as an exit for a large drainage
water way. A lift bridge spans this central inlet (to carry the railroad over it). The design of the bridge is
made to look like a monumental pailou, on the entablure of which may be a Chinese inscription which is to be trans- lated "Commerce increases a city's prosperity". There is to be a motor boat landing at an imposing flight of steps
which gives access to a large open plaza beyond which is to
be a fine building that can contain an audience chamber
for the reception of honoured guests, much like the one in
the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Building. Two fine buildings are
planned on the bund, one on each side of the entrance.
The one on the easterly side is the Custom House, while the
other is the Post Office. Behind the Audience Hall are to
be buildings for governmental use. They are to be low, with green tile roofs and well surrounded with trees so as to be
camouflaged to a considerable extent.
LARGE AREAS
Large areas are to be occupied by parks and
lakes. Thus lakes are in reality controlling reservoirs
to store the heavy rainfalls which may occur during high
tides. Much of the land back of the water front is lower
than the highest tides and floods in the River, and is to
be protected by dykes so as to reduce the cost of raising