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HOUSING PLANS IN EUROPE AFTER THE WAR

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD Unit, a modern hous- ing system which has been carried on in Europe with a considerable “degree of success" for the past 20 years, has been forced by the war to take a recess, but plans already are being made to continue the programme with renewed vigour when hostilities cease, according to Jose Luis Sert, Architect and Town Planner of international distinction, now on a lecture tour of the United States.

Mr. Sert, an enthusiastic exponent of the Neigh- bourhood Unit, said that while "practical readjust- ments" have been made necessary because of the war the goal of Europe's housing movement con- tinues to be the establishment of better civic, social, building, and recreational conditions for city dwellers.

Europe's housing system. Mr.They have defined Neighbourhood Sert feels, would be particularly Units. They have experimented applicable in the United States with a new building technique far because of the many parkways enough to foresee its and bridges which would give the desired space and unobstructed

views.

enormous

possibilities, once it can be applied on large-scale schemes. Perhaps there have been more good inten- The housing problem in Europe tions than good results, more use- since the middle of the last cen- tions, but all the same, something has been considered seriously ful failures than definite solu- tury with France, Germany, and has been done and there are many England giving the matter close important 'Utopias' on paper scrutiny. However, the World ready to find expression in con- War interrupted whatever pro-crete form.” gress had been made and it wasn't until after 1918 that the working out of this problem really got un- der way. Housing interests begun to apply their social and civic for- mulas, always careful to leave big, ореп spaces. before dwelling blocks.

New Techniques Adopted

Natural conditions of the site had to be studied in relation to development for relaxation, recre- ation, and culture. This brought

into play modern techniques of steel and concrete frames, new types of windows, walls reduced, new lighting materials and new systems of ventilating and heating. And in this modern planning high densfiles do not mean overcrowd-

A ruffled

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CANADA'S WAR PAID

BY SMALL MAN

IT'S THE LITTLE FELLOW the man with the $1 and $10 subscription-who's coming through in a big way with the money needed to finance Canada's war needs, a study of the Dominion's current borrowing showed S. F. Porter of the "New York Post."

Recently Canada placed on the market its ing, but tend toward a civic struc-second war loan, amounting to $300,000,000, bearing ture if designed in unit form.

This density of population can

be taken care of by a series of low dwelling blocks. of one or two- family houses, from one to three stories; by medium height blocks from four to eight stories; by high blocks from eight to fifteen sto- ries and by skyscrapers, isolated units complete in themselves.

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The low blocks system is favourite in Holland where so- cial services are included, but perhaps the best example is that

At

3 per cent. interest and due October 1, 1952. midnight two days later, subscriptions totalled $201,949,000; orders were running between $20,000,- 000 and $40,000,000 a day.

Contrasted with the U. S. gov-, opportunity to do their bit on the ernment's billion-dollar borrow-economic front in this war." ings in 12 hours, this record may. not appear impressive. But that first reaction fails to consider one pivotal point: the difference in the buyers.

Instalment Buying

Report is Canadian banks are working out arrangements with private citizens to permit then to buy the bonds on credit and to pay back the banks in instalments..

of the Bellavista Flats at Bel- Canada is asking private citizens levue, Denmark, constructed for to buy the war bonds, is appealing the high middle class in 1934- to individuals in every section of It's similar to the programme

365. Here the

staggered plan the Dominion to "Make Your Dol-U. S. banks followed during the gives light and privacy to thelars Fight for Freedom."

68 apartments and the wide lawn meets the building in a clean line unencumbered by unnecessary details.

The U. S. Treasury in recent years has relied almost entirely upon the country's banks and in- surance companies for funds. The distinction is vital not only from a financial, but also from a social viewpoint.

All Types

Liberty Loan drives of the first World War... That's another thought-provoking point.

No Interest :- Perhaps even more indicative is the Dominion's sale of "registered non-interest-bearing certificates"

due June 15, 1945.

Another good example of the same type, also for the well-to-do, is Neubuhi at Zurich, Switzerland, where a loop of streets leads to a colony of houses with civic equip- ment as kindergarten, shops, and recreation buildings.

Thousands of citizens offered to Because of the slight hill and manner of con-

lend money to the Dominion with- The trend of Canadian war fin-out interest, it is sald, so Canada struction every living-room opens ancing is highly significant to tendered a $10,000,000 to the south-east with a

issue of view of American citizens, for it well may these non-interest-bearing certifi- Lake Zurich.

be that the experience of the cates in denominations Dominion with its war borrow- from $1 up.

ranging ing may foretell the experiences Not only has the $10,000,000 the U. S. is to have with its na- been subscribed, tional defence financing,

but $5,000,000 more has been sent in, according to reports.

remain open indefinitely.

Books on the loan probably will

Policy

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on bank

Social Service System Then there is the group for low incomes at Siemensstadt Siedlung, Berlin, a streamlined design based There's no question that Canada. on the strictest economy, but form- is almost at the private citizen and ing a complete Neighbourhood is trying to hold to a minimum Unit with a central system of bank subscriptions. On the first social services.

war loan, for instance-It was for The Cite de la Muette, Drancy, $200,000,000, carried 34 per cent,

It's a matter of fundamental near Paris, is another complete Interest and was sold in January Anancial policy-whether a gov community scheme, a skyscraper-large subscribers received only ernment is to go to its citizens for group financed by the state. Me- 40 per cent. of the amounts bid money during an emergency, dium blocks and small, well spaced for.

whether it is to rely skyscrapers of fifteen stories, the first of its kind, according to Mr. amounts asked for.

Small buyers received the full credit and to risk encouraging

inflationary forces." Sert, obtain high densities and

On this current one, the same bank credit method for its financ- So far, the U. S has chosen the free open spaces, where one can live, as well as exist, in itself a procedure may be followed to ings, but if our emergency is pro- justification for these Neighbour secure what the Finance Minister longed and national defence ex- called "a type of distribution penditures continue over many "Certainly these housing experi- which will make the issue an un-years, it is highly likely that this ments of the past 20 years," sum-questioned success,

government will follow the same med up Mr. Sert, "have not proved When the first war loan was policies adopted by Canada, lost time. They have formulated floated the remarked "thát "the":"A people's loan"-as-William a new theory of what dwelling books on the issue will be kept] Gibbs McAdoo put it in 1917-s areas have to be to satisfy human open as long as possible to assure the mainstay of a government in needs, materially and spiritually. purchasers of small amounts fulla crucial period.""

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