The City Beautiful Movement
Published on 27. October 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-8018-4978-7 (ISBN)
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.
Reviews / Votes
A major contribution to the scholarship on the history of urban America and the history of American city planning... [Wilson's] discussion of the goals and political reform ideology of the City Beautiful advocates is the most thoughtful and widely researched analysis of this complex subject to haveappeared. HistoryMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
708 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-4978-7 (9780801849787)
DOI
10.56021/9780801837586
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William H. Wilson
The City Beautiful Movement
Book
09/1989
Johns Hopkins University Press
€62.79
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Person
William H. Wilson is professor of history at the University of North Texas. His books include Coming of Age: Urban American, 1915-1945.