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ment-house living will be eliminated -- while all of the advantages and many more can be retained.
For example, one of the most common complaints of apartment-house dwellers today is directed against noisy neighbors. When financial considerations are removed, however, it will be quite possible to build every apartment so that even the noisest 'jam-sessions' cannot be heard by people in the next room. Similarly, complaints of lack of privacy can be eliminated by providing separate entrances for each apartment -- and for those persons who long for a 'bit of garden', there is no reason why each apartment cannot have a terrace, patio ,or roof garden,as well as a share in a beautifully laid-out park surrounding the entire apartment building.
In addition to eliminating all present disadvantages, the apartment houses of urbanates would offer many advantages which could not be otherwise obtained. Each apartment building would be equipped with community recreational facilities -- swimming pool, gymnasium, dance hall, theater, bowling alleys, tennis courts, wood shop, machine shop, laboratory, photographic dark room,library, card rooms, and so on. Likewise, there could be a central nursery where parents could leave their children at any time of day or night;there would be a centralized apartment cleaning service; centralized garage; centralized infirmary; centralized kitchen; centralized laundry; and many other centralized services.
For the city-dwellers who may still insist upon single-family dwellings, each urbanate can also contain a relatively small number of individual houses. (For a complete description of the probable 'house of Tomorrow' see The Technocrat for October, 1938) Due to the higher energy cost per family,however, those who use such individual residences will probably have to devote a portion of their income to paying the difference between the single-family dwelling cost and the cost perfamily of the 'minimum' apartment house ( which will be provided free to all individuals or families who prefer them).
In drawing up the designs of all residences, whether single-family or multi-family, the furniture will be included as an integral, functional part of the house. Similarly, all utilities -- heat, light, water, sewage and garbage disposal, power, communication, etc. -- will be included in the design. The conduits will be constructed so that they were easily accessible for maintenance and repair, with direct 'risers' forming part of the building wall, or digging up a street, to make a minor repair on water, gas, or power line. Likewise, all lines will be sufficiently large to stand any possible overload without danger of bursting or burning out.
In addition to the now known utilities, it is probable that all city dwellings in the future will be equipped with a new utility -- a 'tube conveyor' transportation system. Connecting every household and distribution center in an urbanate, the 'tube' will probably be somewhat like the pneumatic tubes used in large department stories today, except that it will be considerably larger and will probably be powered by 'sucking solenoid' magnets instead of compressed air. Automatically controlling the tube system will be a device similar to a dial telephone with which every householder or clerk will be able to 'dial' the destination of a tube 'container' or 'projectile' and automatically send it to any house or shop in the city.
In the future, this device will probably do the delivery work of mailmen, telegraph, delivery boys, milkmen, laundrymen, cleaning men,grocery deliver boys and other door-to-door delivery men. Since there will be only one quality of every type of goods -- the very highest grade possible -- there will be no need for a person to waste a lot of time 'shopping' for bargains. Instead, for most purchases, it will be found quite satisfactory merely to consult a 'catalogue' of the distribution sequence, make a selection, 'dial' the code number of

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ment-house living will be eliminated -- while all of the advantages and many more can be retained. For example, one of the most common complaints of apartment-house dwellers today is directed against noisy neighbors. When financial considerations are removed, however, it will be quite possible to build every apartment so that even the noisest 'jam-sessions' cannot be heard by people in the next room. Similarly, complaints of lack of privacy can be eliminated by providing separate entrances for each apartment -- and for those persons who long for a 'bit of garden', there is no reason why each apartment cannot have a terrace, patio ,or roof garden,as well as a share in a beautifully laid-out park surrounding the entire apartment building. In addition to eliminating all present disadvantages, the apartment houses of urbanates would offer many advantages which could not be otherwise obtained. Each apartment building would be equipped with community recreational facilities -- swimming pool, gymnasium, dance hall, theater, bowling alleys, tennis courts, wood shop, machine shop, laboratory, photographic dark room,library, card rooms, and so on. Likewise, there could be a central nursery where parents could leave their children at any time of day or night;there would be a centralized apartment cleaning service; centralized garage; centralized infirmary; centralized kitchen; centralized laundry; and many other centralized services. For the city-dwellers who may still insist upon single-family dwellings, each urbanate can also contain a relatively small number of individual houses. (For a complete description of the probable 'house of Tomorrow' see The Technocrat for October, 1938) Due to the higher energy cost per family,however, those who use such individual residences will probably have to devote a portion of their income to paying the difference between the single-family dwelling cost and the cost perfamily of the 'minimum' apartment house ( which will be provided free to all individuals or families who prefer them). In drawing up the designs of all residences, whether single-family or multi-family, the furniture will be included as an integral, functional part of the house. Similarly, all utilities -- heat, light, water, sewage and garbage disposal, power, communication, etc. -- will be included in the design. The conduits will be constructed so that they were easily accessible for maintenance and repair, with direct 'risers' forming part of the building wall, or digging up a street, to make a minor repair on water, gas, or power line. Likewise, all lines will be sufficiently large to stand any possible overload without danger of bursting or burning out. In addition to the now known utilities, it is probable that all city dwellings in the future will be equipped with a new utility -- a 'tube conveyor' transportation system. Connecting every household and distribution center in an urbanate, the 'tube' will probably be somewhat like the pneumatic tubes used in large department stories today, except that it will be considerably larger and will probably be powered by 'sucking solenoid' magnets instead of compressed air. Automatically controlling the tube system will be a device similar to a dial telephone with which every householder or clerk will be able to 'dial' the destination of a tube 'container' or 'projectile' and automatically send it to any house or shop in the city. In the future, this device will probably do the delivery work of mailmen, telegraph, delivery boys, milkmen, laundrymen, cleaning men,grocery deliver boys and other door-to-door delivery men. Since there will be only one quality of every type of goods -- the very highest grade possible -- there will be no need for a person to waste a lot of time 'shopping' for bargains. Instead, for most purchases, it will be found quite satisfactory merely to consult a 'catalogue' of the distribution sequence, make a selection, 'dial' the code number of page 9