FAH101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Landform, Dorothea Lange, Utopia
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Bernett and bennet used plan of chicago to argue and establish chicago as the commercial capital of newly power nation. Paris under napoleon the 3rd his deputy and landscape architect. Boulevard urban plans and image and experience made reference to od powerful imperial cities. Practical capitalist street concerned with railways and transportation. Logical infrastructure meant better and more profitable cities. Forbidding of traffic to enter center of city. Chicago louve is were all trains and commuter lines and elevated railroad go. Intersection btw utilitarian chicago grid centered on very large city center never built bellow is ottawa monumental scale new boulevard proposed. North american elite fell in love with renaissance gardens of italy. Photography and paintings of garden brought back from italy. Parriisch painting from italian villas and their gardens. Like burnham plat turned observations of europe into new design proposals. Motifs into garden of farm in brooklyn massachusetts.
