Suggested Layouts for a Union Terminal and Car House for Pasadena, California

Citation

Holt, Herbert Brayton (1915) Suggested Layouts for a Union Terminal and Car House for Pasadena, California. Bachelor's thesis, California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/edtb-1n90. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:01292025-031825802

Abstract

The consideration of a Union Terminal and Car House for Pasadena is not a simple problem but involves all the larger metropolitan problems; nor is it only Pasadena that must be considered, but also the outlying cities in the metropolitan district around Pasadena. This district embracing South Pasadena, Alhambra, San Gabriel, Lamanda Park, etc. is intimately concerned in the common civic problems such as drainage and flood control, sewage and garbage disposal, and transportation service, and any attempt to solve any of these problems with regard to a small part of this district alone must fail of the ultimate desirable solution. Whether or not these cities ever unite to form a single municipality they must inevitably get together on the solution of the larger problems.

Transportation is probably the first of these problems in importance, since without an adequate transportation system the growth and development of a community is impossible. It is beyond the scope of this study to consider any of the larger problems besides transportation and the problems or transportation as they present themselves will now be briefly considered.

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