Title: The City Beautiful movement
First published: 1989
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.
Subjects: City planning, Landscape architecture, Urban beautification, History, City planning, united states
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: HT164.U6 W55 1989