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 | #1269651 in Books |  Johns Hopkins University Press |  1994-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.00 x.96 x7.00l,1.44 | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||12 of 17 people found the following review helpful.| An excellent work|By Robert Chapman Wood|Anyone who has ever wondered why our country is so ugly so often should take a look at 'The City Beautiful Movement.' Wilson shows, without annoying rhetoric, how planners of the 'City Practical' school unfairly put down the people responsible for the elements that even today represent the most human parts of our metropolitan areas.| ||"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

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.

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