famous cities Word Scramble

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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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