The birth of city planning in the United States, 1840-1917 /
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
c2003.
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| Series: | Creating the North American landscape
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : urban planning in the American past
- Sanitary reform and landscape values, 1840-1890
- Civic art, 1890-1900
- The McMillan plan for Washington, D.C., 1900-1902 : the nation's first comprehensive city plan
- The origins of the city beautiful, 1897-1902
- The birth of the city planning ideal, 1902-1903
- The new planning ideal and the public interest, 1902-1904
- The outburst of great civic schemes, 1902-1905
- City beautiful planning : dreams and reality, 1905-1909
- City beautiful planning as a transitional art, 1905-1909
- The social progressive challenge, 1909
- The birth of city planning, 1909-1910
- City planning, 1911-1917 : elusive quest
- City planning, 1911-1917 : opportunistic interventionism
- Epilogue and conclusion : American urban planning as a fragmented art.
