Page:John Nolen--New ideals in the planning of cities.djvu/64

NEW IDEALS IN THE PLANNING OF but to a number of points covering an extended area, so that the lines of travel may tend to increase the area and thus decrease the density of business congestion. Theoretically, the perfect provision for rapid transit in a city would take the business district as a central circle and radiate from that district in every direction, lines having large facilities nearer to the central circle, and tapering out to the lesser facilities in the outlying suburban districts, thus effecting what in diagrammatic form would be a star with many points. To obtain this, a general rectilinear layout for the regular streets with broad diagonal avenues radiating in straight lines from the central district would appear to yield the best results.