PLAN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Frederick Law Olmsted, Beaux-Arts Architecture, City Beautiful Movement
20 Mar 2016
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City beautiful and garden city movements: to learn about the characteristics, motivations and present-day influence of the city. Beautiful and garden city movements: other key concepts: parks movement, neighbourhood unit, master planned community. City beautiful movement: response to crowded and unhealthy cities, emphasis on aesthetics, borrow models from europe (renaissance city, monumental architecture) Journalist who in travels in europe found inspiration from london"s large parks: major projects include, central park, prospect park in brooklyn, mont royal in montreal, helped design certain neighborhoods in buffalo, certain universities including stanford, university of chicago. Plan for chicago (1909: major buildings, rookery building, reliance building, chicago (1890, monadnock building, chicago (1991) Faltiron building, nyc (1901: union station, washington, dc (1909) Selfridges, london (1909: he was a planner before his time, believed you could take the city on as a design problem, taking design ideas and applying them on the city scale.
