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II. TH B SWEDISH PEOPLE.
This modernizing fever has received a powerful ally in the new
town-regula-tion proposals adopted during the course of the past few decades in most Swedish
towns, the plans so passed being chiefly on the well-known chess-board system,
little respect being paid by them to existing circumstances and conditions; the
general Buildings Act of the year 1874, applicable to the towns of the whole
country, works in the same direction. Of the different sections of that act the
following may be mentioned here: the breadth of a street shall be at least 18
meters (exceptionally only 12), that not, however, to be applied to the esplanades,
which are to be broader and planted with trees; the height of the houses must
not exceed the breadth of the street, increased by 1 l/2 meters, and they are
allowed a maximum of five stories; the area of the court-yard shall be one half
(exceptionally only one third) of the space built upon; the minimum height of a
dwelling-room shall be 2-7 meters at least, and the floor shall be at .least 0-3
meters above the level of the ground, &c.
Saltsjöbaden, near Stockholm.
Owing to legislation for the methods of building, and above all owing
to the water-supply- and drainage systems introduced in most towns, together
with other precautionary measures, the danger from fire has been considerably
reduced, and the demands of health and sanitation have been duly considered
and met.
The effect of the new régime has been less satisfactory as regards the actual
appearance of the towns from an esthetic point of view. In place of ancient,
picturesque and oftentimes historic buildings, that have been swept away, there
now stand new structures of regular form but wholly lacking in interest. The
protests, however, raised by the artistically minded in the country against the
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