Roadtown

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 proj...

The first problem in making a village or a city house is the excavation for foundation and cellar. In the case of isolated houses the cellar is dug by hand labor and dirt carrie...

An ideal social life is one in which people can be together when they wish to be together, and alone when they wish to be alone. The better the transportation facilities, the mo...

Though it is true that some work, which in the past rested heavily upon the shoulders of women, has been taken into the factory, notably the spinning, weaving and clothes making...

An influential factor in the development of manufacturing was the invention of steam power. The industries that use machines were forced out of the homes and into the factories....

The economies of a continuous house under one roof and of railroad and steam shovel, rather than hand and dump cart methods, are sufficient to make the line construction far mor...

Market gardens near our cities are worth several hundreds of dollars per acre. But there are millions of acres of land more fertile than a Brooklyn market garden that cannot be...

The only effective way to fight the trusts is to cease to patronize them and the only way to cease to patronize them is to move into an environment which is more economically ef...

When I use the word transportation in relation to Roadtown I do not mean what the term usually implies. You often hear the expression, “our transportation systems,” but your con...

Civilization growing up in a separate and disjoined fashion has resulted in a certain arrangement of the population upon the face of the earth. At first savage men roamed the pl...

In the modern world there is no such thing as an absolute individualist, or an absolute coöperationist. The most rabid enemy of socialistic and coöperative movements sends his c...

In the panic of 1893 I was in the city of Los Angeles. I had received word from the East that my small fortune had vanished as a result of an ingenious Wall Street railroad “reo...

ROADTOWN EDUCATION AND SOCIAL LIFE 123 Roadtown athletics 125 Education for old as well as young 126 Eyes to be used less and ears more 128 Mothers for public school teachers 13...

WHO WILL BUILD THE ROADTOWNS 139 Home rule for Roadtowners 142 Detached villas practical but undesirable 145 Builders of Roadtown take minimum risk 148 The cost of the first mil...

CIVILIZATION THROUGH PIPES AND WIRES 59 Water 63 Sewerage 64 Heating 65 Refrigeration 65 Drinking water 66 Bath and toilet 67 Gas 68 Vacuum 68 Disinfecting gas 69 Electric light...

INDUSTRY RETURNS TO THE HOME 102 Wage slavery doomed 103 A work room in every home 105 A new type of factory 110 A special message to women 112 The end of monotonous labor 114

ROADTOWN HOUSEKEEPING 74 Woman’s work not specialized 74 No laundry work at home 76 Dusting and sweeping 78 Making beds by machinery 79 Coöperative cooking practical 81 The end...