The City Beautiful movement
By: William H. Wilson.
Series: Creating the North American landscape
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: Urban beautification -- United States -- History -- 20th century; City planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Landscape architecture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 307-350.
Includes index.