City Beautiful the Elder: the City Practical Other cities implemented City Beautiful CBD projects over the next few years, including Detroit, Pittsburgh and, as mentioned,
Category: Civic Center as CBD Modernization
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
Ron W. Coan 