As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would ven — Hugh Ferriss, The Metropolis of Tomorrow
As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would ven — Hugh Ferriss, The Metropolis of Tomorrow
As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would ven — Hugh Ferriss, The Metropolis of Tomorrow
As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would ven — Hugh Ferriss, The Metropolis of Tomorrow
As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would ven — Hugh Ferriss, The Metropolis of Tomorrow
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As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily growing more congested!

— Hugh Ferriss, The Metropolis of Tomorrow
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