S.B. from Liverpool

After discussing the modern office-block, church and small house. Professor Reilly proceeds to an architectural problem still further from being solved - that of the street considered as an architectural whole. Since the early nineteenth century London, for instance, has allowed its streets to grow up haphazard, with the results. that we see in such heterogeneous strings of ill-assorted buildings as Oxford Street and the Strand. Within the last year or two we have seen the final disappearance of the old Regent Street, one of the great triumphs of street-design, and its replacement by a modern attempt which, in the opinion of many critics, is a lamentable failure. Professor Reilly is known to hold strong views on this subject, and what he has to say on the new street - a picture of which appears on the next page - and on the whole question of street-design will be of particular interest to listeners.