The Chicago Plan In 1896, at a formal dinner party (Merchant’s Club and later the Commercial Club—both merged in 1907) Burnham proposed to a groups
Category: Book 2
A Comprehensive Introduction: Origins of the City Beautiful, Parks Movement, Olmsted, Downing. Civic Associations, and Robinson
Origins of the City Beautiful The “City Beautiful” is sometimes referred to in textbooks or planning histories. As a movement it was prominent for a
Kansas City: City Beautiful as a “Stroll in the Park” Transforms into the City Efficient: a Midwest Progressive Era Evolution of Policy Systems
Kansas City Kansas City: City Beautiful as a “Stroll in the Park” Kansas City started down its city beautiful path in the early 1870’s.
Boston in the Progressive Age: the Noble Experiment, the Boston Plan, Honey Fitz–and the Machine
Boston: Blending City Beautiful, Structural Reform and Policy Swirls—and the Machine On March 30, 1909, at the prestigious Boston City Club, the opening speaker,
Hazen Pingree: Detroit’s Social Reform Mayor and his Arch Enemy the Citizens Railway
Detroit Hazen Pingree as Social Reform Mayor The earliest, the path-breaker, and, in some ways the most successful was Detroit’s Hazen Pingree. Pingree, a wealthy
the Birth of the City Manager: the Reformed City, John Dayton and the Dayton Plan, and Ohio’s Progressive Era Diversity in Form of Government
The City Manager and Reformed Cities Structural reform as government capacity-building was every bit as important as change in form of government. In fact, the
Ron W. Coan 