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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Publication date September 1, 1989
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780801837586
ISBN-10 0801837588
Dimensions 1.25 by 7.50 by 10.50 in.
Weight 2.20 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $45.00
Other format details university press
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Awarded the Lewis Mumford Prize of The Society for American City and Regional Planning History and named Outstanding Book in Architecture and Urban Planning by the Association of American Publishers.

"A major contribution to the scholarship on the history of urban America and the history of American city planning... [Wilson's] discussion of the goals and political reform ideology of the City Beautiful advocates is the most thoughtful and widely researched analysis of this complex subject to haveappeared."--History.

Critics of the turn-of-the-century's City Beautiful Movement denounced its projects--broad, tree-lined boulevards and monumental but low-lying civic buildings--as grandiose and unnecessary. In this masterful analysis, William H. Wilson sees the movement as its founders did: as an exercise in participatory politics aimed at changing the way citizens thought about cities.

"An outstanding piece of scholarship."--Paul Boyer, University of Wisconsin.



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from Johns Hopkins Univ Pr (September 1, 1989)
9780801837586 | details & prices | 7.50 × 10.50 × 1.25 in. | 2.20 lbs | List price $45.00
About: Awarded the Lewis Mumford Prize of The Society for American City and Regional Planning History and named Outstanding Book in Architecture and Urban Planning by the Association of American Publishers.
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Johns Hopkins Univ Pr (September 1, 1994)
9780801849787 | details & prices | 7.00 × 10.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.70 lbs | List price $27.00
About: Critics of the turn-of-the-century's City Beautiful Movement denounced its projects―broad, tree-lined boulevards and monumental but low-lying civic buildings―as grandiose and unnecessary.

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