VART 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: City Beautiful Movement, Picturesque, Chicago Tribune
12 Oct 2018
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City beautiful movement: reform philosophy of northern american architecture and urban planning that flourished during 1890s and. 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities. Chicago world fair was temporary but people wanted major changes. Wanted to live in a society similar to that of the world fair. Held one of the biggest architecture firms in the world. The burnham plan (1909 plan of chicago) Watercolor renderings of chicago to show general character of development. 1911: 93 page condensed version of the plan which was distributed to. Provided articles that appeared in 575 magazines, periodicals. 70k copies of wackers manual plan of chicago" as a textbook taught to. Delivered 500 lecture w/ illustrated slides to a total of 100k chicagoans. Get the people who would be evacuated on board with the changes that they wanted to see-- sacrifice for change. The first skyscraper made under burnham was admired for its height at the time.
