Critics of the turn-of-the-century's City Beautiful Movement denounced its projects—broad, tree-lined boulevards and monumental but low-lying civic buildings—as grandiose and unnecessary. In this masterful analysis, William H. Wilson sees the movement as its founders did: as an exercise in participatory politics aimed at changing the way citizens thought about cities.
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A major contribution to the scholarship on the history of urban America and the history of American city planning... [Wilson's] discussion of the goals and political reform ideology of the City Beautiful advocates is the most thoughtful and widely researched analysis of this complex subject to haveappeared.
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This review is from: The City Beautiful Movement (Creating the North American Landscape) (Paperback)
Anyone who has ever wondered why our country is so ugly so often should take a look at 'The City Beautiful Movement.' Wilson shows, without annoying rhetoric, how planners of the 'City Practical' school unfairly put down the people responsible for the elements that even today represent the most human parts of our metropolitan areas.
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The heyday of the City Beautiful movement, from about 1900 to 1910, saw middle and upper-middle-class Americans attempt to refashion their cities into beautiful, functional entities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
naturalistic constructivism, crusade against ugliness, village improvement movement, modern civic art, boulevard system, mean house value, semipublic buildings, concert grove, urban beauty, city beautiful, municipal improvement, pioneer monument, civic center area, park board, civic beauty, civic design, parkway system, playground movement, park bonds, urban horticulture, park commissioners, urban beautification, depot company, planning ideal, landscape park Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kansas City, New York, United States, Central Park, Lake Washington, Board of Public Works, World's Columbian Exposition, San Francisco, White City, Court of Honor, Cherry Creek, Commercial Club, Frederick Law Olmsted, Pacific Avenue, Green Lake, Queen Anne Hill, Washington Park, Paxton Creek, Trinity River, Bailey Peninsula, Penn Valley Park, Prospect Park, Ravenna Park, Union Avenue, West Seattle New!
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The heyday of the City Beautiful movement, from about 1900 to 1910, saw middle and upper-middle-class Americans attempt to refashion their cities into beautiful, functional entities. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
naturalistic constructivism, crusade against ugliness, village improvement movement, modern civic art, boulevard system, mean house value, semipublic buildings, concert grove, urban beauty, city beautiful, municipal improvement, pioneer monument, civic center area, park board, civic beauty, civic design, parkway system, playground movement, park bonds, urban horticulture, park commissioners, urban beautification, depot company, planning ideal, landscape park Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kansas City, New York, United States, Central Park, Lake Washington, Board of Public Works, World's Columbian Exposition, San Francisco, White City, Court of Honor, Cherry Creek, Commercial Club, Frederick Law Olmsted, Pacific Avenue, Green Lake, Queen Anne Hill, Washington Park, Paxton Creek, Trinity River, Bailey Peninsula, Penn Valley Park, Prospect Park, Ravenna Park, Union Avenue, West Seattle New!
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- The Architecture of America (An Atlantic monthly press book) by John Ely Burchard on 5 pages
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- American Architecture and Other Writings, Vol. 1 by Montgomery Schuyler in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs on page 301, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Stanford White (A Da Capo paperback) by Charles Crittenton Baldwin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Lincoln Memorial and American Life by Christopher A. Thomas in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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