“Ideology and Aesthetics”

Along with Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City idea, the turn of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of a short-lived but influential American social and design movement called the City Beautiful Movement. Spurred like Howard by concerns over urban ills, advocates sought to make cities better by improving their physical public realms. A joint undertaking of citizen activists and professional urban planners, the City Beautiful Movement had its heyday in America between 1900 and 1910.