The City Beautiful, Garden City, and Modern City Reading Summary & Prep
Lecture: The City Beautiful, The Garden City and The Modern City (Dagenhart)
Class Discussion – be prepared to discuss the following:
What were each of these movements reacting against? Do these movements celebrate (and make figural) the street, the yard/common green, or the building – and what does that say about how they are treating the public vs private realm and what they value? What distinguish the driving goals and design strategies of each? How do they live on today?
Required Reading:
The City Beautiful
Hines, Thomas – Plan of Chicago – http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/61.html (Links to an external site.)
MacDonald, Elizabeth (2014) “Pleasure Drives and Promenades: The Olmsted Parkway Idea as Inspiration for Today’s Complete Streets”, 34-minute video from GT Olmsted Symposium, online at: https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/52012 (Links to an external site.)
The Garden City
Stein, Clarence (1956) Radburn SteinCC.S.-+Radburn+Toward+New+Towns+for+America_2C1966.pdf download
Stein, Clarence (1956) Sunnyside Gardens SteinC.S.-+Sunnyside+Gardens+Toward+New+Towns+for+America_2C1966.pdf download
Perry, Clarence (1929) The Neighborhood Unit Perry+Clarence_1929+The+Neighborhood+Unit.pdf download
The Modern City
Le Corbusier (1923) A Contemporary City Corbusier+-+A+Contemporary+City.pdf download
CIAM, The Athens Charter (1933 original, English translation from 1943) charter-of-athens-1933.pdf download, and http://portal.uur.cz/pdf/charter-of-athens-1933.pdf
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