PPD 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Broadacre City, World'S Columbian Exposition, City Beautiful Movement
8 Sep 2016
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Contrasts the new one with the old one, means of production, 45 hour work weeks, early retirement (45), free schooling, free health care, peaceful conditions, lack of slums. The picture he painted appealed to everyone but die hard capitalists: did such a good job that the popularity was huge, even to this day. Us devoted to the ideas that bellamy had preferred, even popular in europe, latin america, but mainly us. Everyone has 1 acre land, grow food, few tall buildings, 1 or 2 stories, land use was clustered by activity, continuous city, linear. From midwest, probably viewed the world as flat and endless: the living city- few statement buildings, mainly flat. Ideas were fantastical but very real to him. People went to the fair and came home dazzled, virtual epidemic for more expositions, many cities in the. City beautiful (1893)- the white city, chicago: chicago undertook the development of the world columbian exposition, worlds fair.
