Our urban planning student Adam Sowder provides us with two great related articled on The City Beautiful Movement and The Columbian Exposition, two major impacts on American planning from the late 19th century to early 20th century. Read these great articles to learn more about the history of urban planning.
The City Beautiful Movement and The Columbian Exposition
By Matt Rosenberg, About.com GuideDecember 17, 2008
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I am delighted to see an article on the Columbian Exposition. As I child I was among millions who “saw” the fair many years later in very vivid 3-D on a Stereopticon, an optical device wherein post card sized 3-D photos could be viewed. It was awesome.
But I remember very well, fifty years after the Columbian, the “Century of Progress” Chicago Worlds Fair in 1933 and ‘34. I have been to three more World Fairs subsequently, all were great, but none compared.