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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b13252810.
- catalog created "1994, c1989.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994, c1989.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994, c1989.".
- catalog 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.".
- catalog description "Frederick Law Olmsted and the City Beautiful Movement -- Municipal improvement and beautifying the entire community -- The Columbian Exposition and the City Beautiful Movement -- The ideology and aesthetics of the City Beautiful Movement -- The struggle for an urban park and boulevard system in Kansas City -- An elite campaign for beauty and utility in Harrisburg -- John C. Olmsted's plan for Seattle -- Bossism as civic idealism, planning, and reform in Denver -- The Kansas City Union Station and the City Beautiful ideal -- The collapse of the civic center dream in Seattle -- The realization of the civic center ideal in Denver -- The survival of the City Beautiful technique in Dallas -- The glory, destruction, and meaning of the City Beautiful Movement.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-350) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 365 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801849780".
- catalog isPartOf "Creating the North American landscape".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994, c1989.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "City planning United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Landscape architecture United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Planejamento territorial (historia) larpcal".
- catalog subject "United States".
- catalog subject "Urban beautification United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Urban regions Environment planning".
- catalog tableOfContents "Frederick Law Olmsted and the City Beautiful Movement -- Municipal improvement and beautifying the entire community -- The Columbian Exposition and the City Beautiful Movement -- The ideology and aesthetics of the City Beautiful Movement -- The struggle for an urban park and boulevard system in Kansas City -- An elite campaign for beauty and utility in Harrisburg -- John C. Olmsted's plan for Seattle -- Bossism as civic idealism, planning, and reform in Denver -- The Kansas City Union Station and the City Beautiful ideal -- The collapse of the civic center dream in Seattle -- The realization of the civic center ideal in Denver -- The survival of the City Beautiful technique in Dallas -- The glory, destruction, and meaning of the City Beautiful Movement.".
- catalog title "The City Beautiful Movement / William H. Wilson.".
- catalog type "text".