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4. THE CITY BEAUTIFUL AND CIVIC SPACE
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*** First assignment due
Urban growth and civic ambitions; embellishing the national and regional capital; civic centers for businessmen and progressives; themes and variations on formal types.
READING:
Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett, with Charles Moore, Plan of Chicago
(1909; Chicago, l997), esp. pp. 99-110
Mario Manieri-Elia, "Toward an 'Imperial City,'" in The American City
from the Civil War to The New Deal, ed. Georgio Ciucci, et.
al. (Cambridge, l979), esp. pp. 5l-121
Images in Werner Hegemann and Elbert Peets, The American Vitruvius:
An Architect’s Handbook of Civic Art (New York, l922; l992)
Peter Bacon Hales, Silver Cities: The Photography of American Urbanism, 1839-1915 (Chicago, l983)
William H. Wilson, The City Beautiful Movement (Baltimore, l989)
Robert Fogelsong, Planning the Capitalist City, the Colonial Era to the 1920s (Princeton, l986)
Daniel Bluestone, "Detroit's City Beautiful and the Problem of Commerce," Journal of the Socieity of Architectural Historians 47 (September l988): 245-62
-------, Constructing Chicago (New Haven, l99l)
John Zukowsky, Sally Chappell, Robert Bruegman, The Plan of Chicago,1909-79(Chicago, l979)
Richard Longstreth, ed., The Mall in Washington, 1791-1991 (Washington, D.C., 1991)
Jan Cigliano and Sarah Bradford Landau, eds., The Grand American Avenue, 1850-1920 (San Francisco, l994)
Mansel Blackford, The Lost Dream: Businessmen and City Planning on the Pacific Coast, 1890-1920 (Columbus, Ohio, 1993)
QUESTIONS:
To Be Announced.