City Beautiful movement

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architectural reform movement social reform movement urban planning movement

The City Beautiful movement was a late 19th- and early 20th-century urban planning and architectural reform movement in the United States that promoted grand boulevards, monumental public buildings, and beautified civic spaces to inspire moral and social improvement.

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Label	Occurrences
City Beautiful movement canonical	47
city beautiful movement	3
City Beautiful civic center and boulevard plans	1
City Beautiful movement in North America	1
City Beautiful movement in Philadelphia	1
City Beautiful movement in the United States	1
Plan of Washington, D.C. improvements	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	architectural reform movement ⓘ social reform movement ⓘ urban planning movement ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
endTime	early 20th century ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	aesthetic unity of public spaces ⓘ association of beauty with morality ⓘ association with Progressive Era reforms ⓘ association with elite and business interests ⓘ belief that environment shapes behavior ⓘ classical architectural vocabulary ⓘ coordination of architecture and landscape architecture ⓘ creation of vistas and sightlines ⓘ criticism for neglecting social and economic issues ⓘ emphasis on cleanliness and order in cities ⓘ emphasis on monumental public buildings ⓘ emphasis on public monuments ⓘ focus on civic centers ⓘ focus on civic pride ⓘ focus on downtown and civic core rather than entire metropolitan region ⓘ formal axial plans ⓘ influence of City Improvement Commissions ⓘ influence of the City Beautiful ideal on civic identity ⓘ influence on later comprehensive planning movements ⓘ integration of parks and open spaces ⓘ integration of transportation corridors with boulevards ⓘ large-scale urban interventions ⓘ legacy in surviving civic centers and boulevards in U.S. cities ⓘ reliance on public–private partnerships for improvements ⓘ symmetrical compositions ⓘ top–down planning approach ⓘ use of comprehensive civic center plans ⓘ use of grand boulevards ⓘ use of landscaped parkways ⓘ use of neoclassical style ⓘ
hasGoal	civic improvement ⓘ moral uplift ⓘ orderly urban growth ⓘ social reform ⓘ urban beautification ⓘ
influenced	American urban planning ⓘ civic center design in the United States ⓘ park and boulevard systems in U.S. cities ⓘ zoning and city planning practices ⓘ
influencedBy	Beaux-Arts ⓘ surface form: Beaux-Arts architecture European grand manner planning ⓘ World’s Columbian Exposition ⓘ
mainRegion	North America ⓘ
startTime	late 19th century ⓘ

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Beaux-Arts → influenced → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Canberra region (Jervis Bay Territory nearby) → urbanPlanningInfluence → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Henry Bacon → associatedWith → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Daniel Burnham → movement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Daniel Burnham → notableWork → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: Plan of Washington, D.C. improvements

Daniel Burnham → influenced → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

this entity surface form: City Beautiful movement in the United States

American Renaissance architecture → relatedTo → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Administration Building of the World’s Columbian Exposition → influenced → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Cass Gilbert → movement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Charles Follen McKim → movement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

World’s Columbian Exposition → influenced → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Carrère and Hastings → associatedWithMovement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Parkway Museums District → urbanDesignInfluence → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Jacques Gréber → movement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

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this entity surface form: City Beautiful movement in North America

Monument Avenue Historic District → planningConcept → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Coral Gables, Florida → planningConcept → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Abbot Kinney → movement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

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Plan of Chicago → influenced → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Plan of Chicago → movement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Plan of Baguio → influencedBy → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Plan of Manila → influencedBy → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Burnham → architecturalMovement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

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Court of the Universe → associatedWith → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

The Exposition Beautiful → relatedConcept → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Administration Building → architecturalMovement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

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Greater Boston parkway system → planningInfluencedBy → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Metropolitan Park Commission engineers → influencedBy → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Humboldt Parkway → associatedWith → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

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Federal Triangle → urbanPlanningConcept → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. → movement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Jarvis Hunt → movement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Thomas Hastings → movement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Benjamin Franklin Parkway cultural district → designedInStyle → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

White City → influenced → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

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Plan Zuid → influencedBy → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Joseph W. Young → influencedBy → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Westchester County parkway system → influencedBy → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Trowbridge & Livingston → associatedWithMovement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Greber Plan for Ottawa → influencedBy → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Parkway and civic center schemes in Philadelphia → inspiredBy → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Parkway and civic center schemes in Philadelphia → category → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

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McMillan Plan → influencedBy → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Pasadena Civic Center → architecturalStyle → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

D. H. Burnham & Company → influenced → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Court of Honor → associatedWithMovement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

Charles Moore → movement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ

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Edward H. Bennett → movement → City Beautiful movement ⓘ