The City Beautiful Movement

The City Beautiful Movement
Title The City Beautiful Movement PDF eBook
Author William H. Wilson
Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages 384
Release 1994-09-01
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780801849787

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Wilson sees the movement as its founders did: as an exercise in participatory politics aimed at changing the way citizens thought about cities.

Building the City Beautiful

Building the City Beautiful
Title Building the City Beautiful PDF eBook
Author David Bruce Brownlee
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 154
Release 1989
Genre Architecture
ISBN

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The Plan of Chicago

The Plan of Chicago
Title The Plan of Chicago PDF eBook
Author Carl Smith
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 203
Release 2009-08-01
Genre History
ISBN 0226764737

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Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city’s most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier. Carl Smith’s fascinating history reveals the Plan’s central role in shaping the ways people envision the cityscape and urban life itself. Smith’s concise and accessible narrative begins with a survey of Chicago’s stunning rise from a tiny frontier settlement to the nation’s second-largest city. He then offers an illuminating exploration of the Plan’s creation and reveals how it embodies the renowned architect’s belief that cities can and must be remade for the better. The Plan defined the City Beautiful movement and was the first comprehensive attempt to reimagine a major American city. Smith points out the ways the Plan continues to influence debates, even a century after its publication, about how to create a vibrant and habitable urban environment. Richly illustrated and incisively written, his insightful book will be indispensable to our understanding of Chicago, Daniel Burnham, and the emergence of the modern city.

The Improvement of Towns and Cities

The Improvement of Towns and Cities
Title The Improvement of Towns and Cities PDF eBook
Author Charles Mulford Robinson
Publisher
Pages 344
Release 1901
Genre Art, Municipal
ISBN

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American Colonisation and the City Beautiful

American Colonisation and the City Beautiful
Title American Colonisation and the City Beautiful PDF eBook
Author Ian Morley
Publisher Routledge
Pages 244
Release 2019-10-30
Genre Architecture
ISBN 0429627858

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Winner of the 2020 IPHS Koos Bosma Prize American Colonisation and the City Beautiful explores the history of city planning and the evolution of the built environment in the Philippines between 1916 and 1935. In so doing, it highlights the activities of the Bureau of Public Works’ Division of Architecture as part of Philippine national development and decolonisation. Morley provides new archival materials which deliver significant insight into the dynamics associated with both governance and city planning during the American colonial era in the Philippines, with links between prominent American university educators and Filipino architecture students. The book discusses the two cities of Tayabas and Iloilo which highlight the significant role in the urban design of places beyond the typical historiographical focus of Manila and Baguio. These examples will aid in further understanding the appearance and meaning of Philippine cities during an important era in the nation’s history. Including numerous black and white images, this book is essential for academics, researchers and students of city and urban planning, the history and development of Southeast Asia and those interested in colonial relations.

Designing the Modern City

Designing the Modern City
Title Designing the Modern City PDF eBook
Author Eric Paul Mumford
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 361
Release 2018-01-01
Genre Architecture
ISBN 0300207727

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A comprehensive new survey tracing the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present. Written with an international perspective that encourages cross-cultural comparisons, leading architectural and urban historian Eric Mumford presents a comprehensive survey of urbanism and urban design since the industrial revolution. Beginning in the second half of the 19th century, technical, social, and economic developments set cities and the world's population on a course of massive expansion. Mumford recounts how key figures in design responded to these changing circumstances with both practicable proposals and theoretical frameworks, ultimately creating what are now mainstream ideas about how urban environments should be designed, as well as creating the field called "urbanism." He then traces the complex outcomes of approaches that emerged in European, American, and Asian cities. This erudite and insightful book addresses the modernization of the traditional city, including mass transit and sanitary sewer systems, building legislation, and model tenement and regional planning approaches. It also examines the urban design concepts of groups such as CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and Team 10, and their adherents and critics, including those of the Congress for the New Urbanism, as well as efforts toward ecological urbanism. Highlighting built as well as unbuilt projects, Mumford offers a sweeping guide to the history of designers' efforts to shape cities.

Designing Australia's Cities

Designing Australia's Cities
Title Designing Australia's Cities PDF eBook
Author Robert Freestone
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2007
Genre Cities and towns
ISBN 9780415424226

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This pioneering national study is a relevant account of how the City Beautiful movement influenced Australian city design, and how that planning culture that stretches far beyond Australia and is of increasing relevance worldwide today.