Title: The City Beautiful Movement (Creating the North American Landscape)
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.
Subjects: City planning, Landscape architecture, Urban beautification, History, City planning, united states, Planejamento territorial (historia)