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famous cities
aicp pre famous cities/movements
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Radburn NJ | Garden City, Hierarchical roads – first use, Cul-de sacs, Central open space, Serpentine pedestrian and bike path, Idea was to be very socialist/inclusive - In reality was very exclusive, Never made it to full population |
| The main idea of Greenbelt Cities | “go just outside the city centers of population, pick up cheap land, build a whole community, and entice people into them. Then go back in to the cities and tear down whole slums and make parks of them” |
| President and Administration responsible for greenbelt city movement” | FDR’s Resettlement Administration |
| Rexford Tugwell | head of the FDR’s resettlement administration and responsible for the Greenbelt movement |
| Three grenblet cities | Greenbelt, MD, Greenhills, OH, Greendale, WI |
| Ideas of the City Beautiful movement | Preserve social fabric, Answer to detiorating society - make it beautiful and pretty and all will fall into order, “trickle down urban development” – Rich will do good and therefore help the poor –Ignores the poor |
| The City Beautiful movement in practice | Public bldgs prominent,Ignores housing, schools, slums |
| Who planned “The White City” when and where? | Daniel Burnham, 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago |
| Characterisitics of the white city plan | Reclaim the lake front; Broad axial roads; Chicago River incorporated; Edward Bennet takes over after Burnham dies – he then gets fired; Central element of civic center - never built. |
| Examples of “City beautiful” cities | Washington DC–1901; Cleveland City Center–1902;San Fran–1906–doomed by commercial pressure; Dehli – British Capital in India – ignores Indian Culture and social order; Lusaka Africa; Canberra Australia, most successful took a long time to complete |
| What was the first garden city and who designed it? | Unwin and Parker - designed Letchworth in England |
| What was the main concept behind the garden city movement? | Town – Country – Town/Country – The best of both worlds |
| Characteristics of the garden cities | Buy cheap land in the country,Get industrialists to build factories there;Put a cap on population (howard said 32k);Surround with greenbelt;Connect to other garden cities with transit;Citizens own the land in perpetuity |
| 4 Examples of Garden Cities | Welwyn UK – 1920; Letchworth UK – 1903; Sunnyside Gardens – 1922 planned Queens NY;Radburn NJ -1928 built Clarence Stein and Henry Wright |
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