The City Beautiful Movement
At the turn of the twentieth Century, Frederick Law Olmsted and his peers laid the foundation for a Utopian City Beautiful Movement and a modern approach to urban planning and design.
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The "White City" of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago was a triumph of the movement and a major impetus for the short-lived City Beautiful movement in the United States.
Soon, Beaux-Arts architecture was swept along by the turn-of-the-20th-century City Beautiful Movement, which left in its wake a sea of magnificent public buildings of polished stone, from state capitols courthouses, and city halls to train stations, ...
The Exposition became the impetus for the short-lived City Beautiful movement. After the Exposition, the Beaux Arts style led to planned communities with large, showy houses, wide boulevards, and vast parks.
 See also: House, Architecture, Beaux, Classical, Roman
  
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