Underground Wiring in New Residential Areas (PAS Report 163)

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Telephone poles and overhead electrical wires are common sights in the built environment, but after World War II, developers of residential subdivisions began eliminating the visual chaos this infrastructure creates by installing telephone and power lines underground.

This historic PAS report from 1962 examines the growing practice — and benefits and challenges — of providing underground power and telephone lines in new residential subdivisions.

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