The City Beautiful Movement (Creating the North American Landscape)
Edition: Reprint edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780801849787
Subjects: Architecture; Urban communities; Urban Planning; USA; Landscape; Planning; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Architecture / Landscape
First sentence: 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.
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 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.