City Beautiful Movement
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Author_William H. Wilson
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Product details
- ISBN 9780801849787
- Weight: 794g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 27 Oct 1994
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Critics of the turn-of-the-century's City Beautiful Movement denounced its projects-broad, tree-lined boulevards and monumental but low-lying civic buildings-as 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.
William H. Wilson is professor of history at the University of North Texas. His books include Coming of Age: Urban American, 1915-1945.
