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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"City Beautiful"”.
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The "Skyscraper problem" and the city beautiful : the Woolworth Building
… War I. It referred to the incompatibility of City Beautiful principles with economically propelled land development, and to the contradiction between the notion of architecture as an art and the skyscraper's programmatic and technical requirements. Civic designers in New York had difficulty …
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Growth for Whom? Sacrifice of Chicago’s Chinatown Then and Now
… Renewal and the beautification efforts of the City Beautiful Movement led to widespread displacement and destruction of many Chinatowns across America, including Chicago’s. The history of Chicago’s Chinatown tells a story of a community that has always been an afterthought in city planning and …
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The Role of American Elites in the New Courthouse Building Project: Progressive-era Ideologies in the Vieux Carre
<p>At the turn of the twentieth century, City Beautiful principles manifested themselves in the historic core of New Orleans: the Vieux Carre. City and state officials determined that the Cabildo and Presbytere were no longer suitable sites for the Louisiana Supreme Courts, and set about erecting a …
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The early planning and development of Oklahoma City
… development, and implementation of Oklahoma City's Grand Boulevard. In the early days of 1909, a plan emerged to build an expansive parks and boulevard system to encircle Oklahoma City. Such systems had evolved during the parks movement era of the late nineteenth century and had become a …
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Modernism and the American system: standardization, ugliness, literature, 1900-1930
… advocated programs—such as eugenics, ugly laws, City Beautiful movements, and the scientific rationalism of Henry Ford and Frederick Winslow Taylor—that systematically excised forms of difference in the modern scene. In an increasingly standardized U.S., then, forms of the irregular and unsightly …
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Participatory parks planning : exploring democratic design as a tool to mediate cultural conflict over neighborhood green space
… to the reform parks and playgrounds of the City Beautiful era. Not until this century, however, has it become clear that this interpretation of nature is often an Anglo-centric vision, influenced by Western notions of landscape and the frontier. Rarely do American urban parks consider or …
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The Rhode Island state house--the competition (1890-1892)
… This building represents the ideals of the "City Beautiful", or "White City", movement which grew out of the influence of the Fair on the American Public. The study seeks to show how a small group of architects, which included McKim, Mead & White, had the correct social and professional …
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Daniel H. Burnham: his legacy to American architecture
… Chicago (1888), the Fuller Building, New York City (1902-1903) and Union Station, Washington, D.C. (1903- 1907). These buildings will be considered within the context of the historical changes brought about by the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. By detailed examination of these three …
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The Gateway of tomorrow: modernist town planning on Cape Town's Foreshore 1930-70
… arguing that there is a clear convergence of the City Beautiful movement with that of High Modernism. In attempting to understand the complex forces that shaped Cape Town, a thorough understanding of the particular context of the early twentieth century and the debates around town planning and the …
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Social Aesthetics: Affecting Change in Food Provisioning
… expressed and became the prototype for America's City Beautiful movement. Today, its carpet of lawn framed by American Elm trees epitomizes the economic, ecological, and equity challenges of monoculture landscapes. This project aims to express democratic values through polyculture. It invites …
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Big City
… is a creative prose project entitled “Big City.” The book will be divided into four sections. It consists of sets of twelve vignettes with the same titles that are interspersed within their sections, as well as longer poetic prose pieces, and twelve short stories. The first section contains …