What is the city beautiful movement?
Emphasizing beauty and aesthetics thinking about monuments, grand buildings, parks, perfect landscapes, lakes, and circular road systems
- creatre moral and civic virtue among the urban population (price in the city)
When was the city beautiful movement?
1800s-1900s
Who was Daniel hudson burnham?
Father of american city planning
When was daniel hudson burnham relevant?
1846-1912
What was the world’s Colombian exposition?
World fair
started in 1893
What was Daniel Hudson burnhams greates feat?
Plan of Chicago, followed by manila, Baguio, cleveland, and san francisco
Where were the majority of downtowns located in Daniel Hudson burnhams plans?
On or near a lake with a mall, and government buildings surrounding it
Who was sir Ebenezer howard?
person who wrote the book garden cities of tomorrow, published in 1898
When was sir ebenezer howard relevant?
1850-1928
What was the bood garden cities of tomorrow about?
Adressed population and pollution that came about by the industrial revolution by creating garden cities
What is a garden city?
A planned residential area, self-contained communities surrounded by greenbelts, containing proportionte areas of residences
What is the garden city movement?
A method of urban plannening
When was the garden city movement intitiated?
1898 by sir Ebenezer howard in the UK
Why was the garden city concept made?
TO produce relatively economically independent cities with short commute times and the preservation of the countryside
What did planners do when they were constricted on building outwards?
Built vertically
What can a greenbelt do?
protects farmland, natural areas like forests and wetlands, and water resources from urban sprawl, supporting local food production, biodiversity, and a clean water supply
Who was frank lloyd wright?
Champion and proponent of urban decentralization
When was frank lloyd wright relevant?
1867-1959
What did frank lloyd wright do?
Designed the 1,000 hectare broadacre city (self-contained unit)
What did the broadacre city contain?
Social services:
schools
trains
museums
Employment:
markets
offcies
nearby farms
industrial areas
What did frank lloyd wright envision?
A dispersed settlement of people linked by spacious well landscaped highways transversed in private automobiles
Who was henry wright?
Creator of the superblock
When was henry wright relevant?
1878-1936
What is a superblock?
An urban planning strategy that reorganizes a city’s blocks to prioritize people over cars, or a critical data structure in computer file systems that stores metadata about the file system itself.
