Main entry:

Wilson, William H. (William Henry), 1935- author.

Title & Author:

The City Beautiful movement / William H. Wilson.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1989]
©1989

Description:

x, 365 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-350) and index.
Frederick Law Olmsted and the City Beautiful movement -- Municipal improvement and beautifying the entire community -- Columbian Exposition and the City Beautiful movement -- Ideology and aesthetics of the City Beautiful movement -- Struggle for an urban park and boulevard system in Kansas City -- Elite campaign for beauty and utility in Harrisburg -- John C. Olmsted's plan for Seattle -- Bossism as civic idealism, planning, and reform in Denver -- Kansas City Union Station and the City Beautiful ideal -- Collapse of the civic center dream in Seattle -- Realization of the civic center ideal in Denver -- Survival of the City Beautiful technique in Dallas -- Glory, destruction, and meaning of the City Beautiful movement.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801837588 (alk. paper)
9780801837586 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Urban beautification United States History 20th century.
City planning United States History 20th century.
Landscape architecture United States History 20th century.
Landscape architecture United States 20th century History.
Planificación urbana EE. UU.
Architecture du paysage États-Unis 20e siècle Histoire.
Architecture du paysage États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
City planning
Landscape architecture
Urban beautification
Stadt
Verschönerung
Stadtgestaltung
Urbanisme États-Unis 20e siècle.
Architecture du paysage États-Unis 20e siècle.
Urbanisation États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
United States
USA
Urban regions Environment planning

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Creating the North American landscape.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 50056
Call No.: ID:89-B9021
Status: External loan