The City Beautiful Movement (creating The North American Landscape) [Paperback]

Critics of the turn-of-the-century's City Beautiful Movement denounced its projectsbroad, tree-lined boulevards and monumental but low-lying civic buildingsas 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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