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Ning Site-Ning Site-America ComparedAmerica Compared
Kelsey TaylorKelsey TaylorHistory 141History 141
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“The City in the Land of the Dollar”
European Cities
❖elegant avenues, great civic spaces, impressive public monuments, cathedrals, outdoor plazas, sidewalk cafes
❖beautiful, ordered and high-minded
American Cities
❖socially fragmented, recklessly entrepreneurial, lacking a defined centerparking garages, indoor shopping malls, drive-through fast food restaurantsraucous, unfinished, and commercial
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“The City in the Land of the Dollar”
Chicago
❖fastest-growing city in the U.S., possible the world in the last decade of the 19th century
❖where American urbanism started
❖fire in 1871 led to the city being filled with all the new latest technology (telephone switchboard, electricity, cable cars, electric trolly, elevators, steel-frame construction, skyscrapers)
❖people now lived outside the city and “downtown” consisted of commercial buildings
❖parks sprang up as a counterbalance to the congestion of the city
❖the World’s Columbian Exposition brought Chicago together in a grand urban vision
❖combined naturalistic and formal landscaping with grand public buildings
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“The City in the Land of the Dollar”
“City Beautiful”
❖1900’s slogan for an urban improvement campaign
❖brought together civic reformers, community volunteers, and municipal politicians with crusading architects and landscape architects
❖American cities started to look at themselves critically
❖produced the grand american railroad stations
❖advocates of civic art believed in the value of design, both architectural and urban- thought of parks and boulevards as places for leisure and public recreation and improvements to the very fabric of cities