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Conclusion 73 City Planning and Housing 74 Types of Dwellings 75 Minimum Requirements 75 Sunlight and Housing 76 Socrates Perception 76 B. C- Faust s Theory 77 An Experience of the Pueblo Dwellers 77 Confusion of Today 77 Effects of Different Orientations 78 Room Insolation 78 Types of Sunrays and their Influence 80 Results of our Investigation 81 Protection against Sun 85 Population Density 86 What does Population Density Mean? 88 Latitude 88 Topography 89 Orientation 89 Duration of Insolation 89 Fallacy of Multi-storied Building 91 Relation of Depth to Length 91 Storey Height 91 Differences between the One-F amily House and the Multi-storey Building .91 How to achieve Privacy in high Density 92 Influence of Density on the Plan of a Dwelling 93 Mixed Type of Settlement 95 Average Population Density 96 Building and Zoning Laws 96 Minimum Demands 96 Insufficiency of the Present Block and Street System 100 Combination of Blocks 100 The Super Block: Residential Area 100 The Super Block: Commercial Area 104 Advantages and Disadvantages 104 The Need of a New Settlement Unit 104 Structure, Shape and Size of the New Unit 107 Street System 107 Straight or Curved Streets? Ill The Width of Streets Ill Advantageous Features of the New Unit 113 Flexibility of the Use of the New Unit 113 Simple Industrial Settlements 113 Smoke-pollution and its ill Effects 113 How to Abolish Smoke by Techno-C hemical Means or by Planning? ..
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