GEOG 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ebenezer Howard, Daniel Burnham, City Beautiful Movement
4 Apr 2016
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3 major movements: origin of the urban city city beautiful movement reconstructing the city garden city movement building new cities both very ambitious charles dickens - view of black and white" of the city, very unhealthy proletariat. 4 phenomenas" from 20th planners by-law planning: specific window sizes, building heights, street width and backyard size picturesque town movement (germany) Winding streets and irregular clusters of buildings around town squares. Model company towns. pullman in illinois paternalistic; produce a productive workforce. zoning and street design became conventional planning practice after haussmann revuilding paris. Humans need to be impressed with spectacles. Plan that includes many elements (height, distance, etc etc) By making the city beautiful (instead of improving housing, etc) will make people more happy, etc. City associated with organic". cities should be designed at the human scale. Houses should have mixing architecture, and shouldn"t be based on greeks, romans, etc. it should be something more natural.
