Roadtown

About this eBook

Author

Chambless, Edgar, 1870-1936

Credits

Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

HT: Social sciences: Communities, Classes, Races

Subject

Transportation

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 58964

Release Date

February 25, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ROADTOWN — DEDICATION — FOREWORD — THE MAN CHAMBLESS — TABLE OF CONTENTS
2. 2.CHAPTER I WHEN I BEGAN TO THINK — How I Came to Invent Roadtown.
3. 3.CHAPTER II A NEW CONCEPTION OF TRANSPORTATION — Transportation in Nature. — Our Disjointed Civilization.
4. 4.CHAPTER III LINE DISTRIBUTION—THE LOGICAL OUTCOME — Transportation Determines the Form of Cities. — Building in One Dimension. — A Line of City Through the Country.
5. 5.CHAPTER IV THE ROADTOWN PLAN OF CONSTRUCTION — To be Built of Cement. — The Railroad will be Noiseless. — Speed Possibilities. — The Street Upon the Roof.
6. 6.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.
7. 7.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.
8. 8.CHAPTER VII THE SERVANT PROBLEM IN ROADTOWN
9. 9.CHAPTER VIII ROADTOWN AGRICULTURE. — Sufficient Land to Support Population. — Elimination of the Middleman. — Coöperative Ownership of Farm Tools.
10. 10.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.
11. 11.CHAPTER X ROADTOWN MAKES CO-OPERATION PRACTICAL — A Mecca for the Individualist. — The Roadtown Department Store.
12. 12.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.
13. 13.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.
14. 14.CHAPTER XIII IN ROADTOWN THERE WILL BE NO TRUSTS — Shall we Miss Them? — The Roadtown Religion.

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