Kansas City; City Beautiful as a “Stroll in the Park” Kansas City started down its city beautiful path in the early 1870’s. In those years,
Category: Book 2
the Chicago Plan
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
Washington D.C.: Burnham’s, Olmsted Jr. National Model for City Beautiful
Washington D.C. Burnham had been a busy little bee since the Great White City and City Beautiful had certainly gathered considerable momentum in its aftermath.
Cleveland: City Beautiful as “a City on a Hill”
Cleveland: City Beautiful as “a City on a Hill” The most tangible tie with Downing’s romanticism sprung from a 1895 design competition advocated in
Charles Mulford Robinson: Integration of Civic Improvement Associations into the City Beautiful Fabric
Charles Mulford Robinson Taking advantage of Burnham’s City Beautiful “coolness” Charles Mulford. Robinson, a journalist by trade, injected new vitality into the civic improvement movement
Chicago Columbian Exposition: World’s Fair of 1893, Daniel Burnham
The Columbian Exposition If I had to choose one single event or episode over which our history crossed into the modern world, it would be
Ron W. Coan 