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CITY PLANNING ERAA PRESENTATION BY GROUP 3

LARC 501/601 INTRODUCTION TO LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

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HISTORYy City planning was born FIFTEEN (15) years prior to World War I. It

was the direct offspring of Progressive Era Urban Reform and its

expanded ideal of the public interest, as well as culminating

responses to the rise of great urban centers dating back to themiddle decades of the NINETEENTH (19th)CENTURY.

PLAN FOR PARIS UNDER NAPOLEON III (Began 1854)

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REFORMS DUE TO CITY PLANNINGThe antecedents to the achievements in the Progressive Era which gave rise to the great

cities brought concern through PUBLIC THOUGHTS which include:

Public Health

Landscape Values, and

Architecture

Though yielding a body of accumulating experience and precedents centered on large-scale, special purpose efforts to reshape urban settings

LEFT: MAP OF CENTRAL PARK, 1875BOTTOM: OVERVIEW, MODERN DAYCENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK IS A PRIMEEXAMPLE OF RESULT OF CITY PLANNING

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DEVELOPMENTS DUE TO CITY PLANNING

y Water supply, sewerage, public par systems, civic art, land fill, rapid

transit and still other concerns about focal points for nineteenthcentury undertakings.

y Streets were aligned to take advantage of cooling breezes, andarcades designed to shield pedestrians from sun and rain.

y Open spaces hard spaces such as plazas, malls, courtyards,provides settings for public activities of all kinds. Soft spaces such as

parks, gardens, lawns and nature preserves provide essential reliefs

from harsh urban conditions and serve as space for recreationalactivities.

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THE BILTMORE ESTATECOMPLETED 1895, BY FREDERICKLAW OLMSTED.

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.

OXFORD CIRCUS, LONDON.

ABUJA, NIGERIA.