Wide Open Spaces

Here's a 1906 photo of Broad Street in Philadelphia looking north. City Hall is directly behind, and the Masonic Temple is on the right, followed by the Scottish Rite Cathedral. The U.S.'s first art academy, the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine Arts (PAFA) is, I think, just beyond that tallish building on the left.

But the point is: Notice how spacious and roomy cities could look before automobiles. Yes, immigrants were crowded into cluttered cramped disease-and-death playgrounds; but out there in the hustle-bustle, you could really stretch out. Just watch out for horseshit, of all kinds.