ARTH 3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Frederick Law Olmsted, City Beautiful Movement, John A. Macdonald
19 Dec 2016
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Two fire in qc in 1845, one month apart. The british wanted to impress their own presence outside qc there were bedroom communities put together quickly and poorly built. The result was two successive res which burnt the suburbs consequences of how someone plans expansion. In certain situations communities grow organically, relating to their setting. Seen at the organic communities: peggy"s cove nfl. You can"t expect things to result orderly without approaching it as such. 21 elizabeth street (arthur s goss) 1910: the slum area that grew up in downtown toronto because there was no organizing principle, people kept building and building into the downtown core; Diagonal streets (john galt 1830: galt got the idea from european planning and what he saw in the us in the town: buffalo, people pulling ideas from many sources, but what they are really dealign with is this: Central park and the picturesque landscape garden the court of honour and the city beautiful movement.
