Roadtown
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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII WHO WILL BUILD THE ROADTOWNS MY many friends have advised me to sell the Roadtown patents or form a company and sell stock. But these people have failed to realize the comprehensiveness of the Roadtown project. Indeed, should I have promoted the Roadtown as a monopoly for private gain I would have unquestionably been the meanest man on earth, for in me and my backers would have been combined all the des...
Chapters (239)
- ROADTOWN
- DEDICATION
- FOREWORD
- THE MAN CHAMBLESS
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I WHEN I BEGAN TO THINK
- How I Came to Invent Roadtown.
- CHAPTER II A NEW CONCEPTION OF TRANSPORTATION
- Transportation in Nature.
- Our Disjointed Civilization.
- CHAPTER III LINE DISTRIBUTION—THE LOGICAL OUTCOME
- Transportation Determines the Form of Cities.
- Building in One Dimension.
- A Line of City Through the Country.
- CHAPTER IV THE ROADTOWN PLAN OF CONSTRUCTION
- To be Built of Cement.
- The Railroad will be Noiseless.
- Speed Possibilities.
- The Street Upon the Roof.
- CHAPTER V CIVILIZATION THROUGH PIPES AND WIRES
- Water.
- Sewerage.
- Heating.
- Refrigeration.
- Drinking Water.
- Bath and Toilet.
- Gas.
- Vacuum.
- Disinfecting Gas.
- Electric Light.
- Electric Power.
- Telephones.
- Dictograph.
- Telegraphone.
- CHAPTER VI ROADTOWN HOUSEKEEPING
- Woman’s Work not Specialized.
- No Laundry Work at Home.
- Dusting and Sweeping.
- Making Beds by Machinery.
- Coöperative Cooking Practical.
- The End of Household Drudgery.
- CHAPTER VII THE SERVANT PROBLEM IN ROADTOWN
- CHAPTER VIII ROADTOWN AGRICULTURE.
- Sufficient Land to Support Population.
- Elimination of the Middleman.
- Coöperative Ownership of Farm Tools.
- CHAPTER IX INDUSTRY RETURNS TO THE HOME
- Wage-slavery Doomed.
- A Work Room in Every Home.
- A New Type of Factory.
- A Special Message to Women.
- The End of Monotonous Labor.
- CHAPTER X ROADTOWN MAKES CO-OPERATION PRACTICAL
- A Mecca for the Individualist.
- The Roadtown Department Store.
- CHAPTER XI ROADTOWN EDUCATION AND SOCIAL LIFE
- Roadtown Athletics.
- Education for Old as Well as Young.
- Eyes to be Used Less and Ears More.
- Mothers for Public School Teachers.
- Lowest Death Rate in History.
- A Home in the Truest Sense.
- CHAPTER XII WHO WILL BUILD THE ROADTOWNS
- Home Rule for Roadtowners.
- Detached Villas Practical but Undesirable.
- Builders of Roadtown Take Minimum Risk.
- The Cost of the First Mile of Roadtown.
- REPORT ON CONSTRUCTION WORK AND POWER EQUIPMENT FOR PROPOSED ROADTOWN
- TRANSPORTATION CALCULATIONS.
- ESTIMATED COST OF BUILDING AND OPERATING ROADTOWN TRANSPORTATION.
- Economy Increases with Length.
- A Real Remedy for Congestion.
- CHAPTER XIII IN ROADTOWN THERE WILL BE NO TRUSTS
- Shall we Miss Them?
- The Roadtown Religion.
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