Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Johns Hopkins University Press (1994), Edition: 1st Printing, 384 pages
Description
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 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.
Subjects
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1989
Physical description
384 p.; 10 inches
ISBN
9780801849787
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