ABSTRACT
Despite the City Beautiful movement, aesthetic considerations have always been problematic in American land use planning. They involve questions of preference and taste on which opinions differ, as the following examples illustrate:
(Haar and Wolf 1989:533) By contrast, designs once despised can become popular icons: the Eiffel Tower was once described in
terms of ‘the grotesque mercantile imaginings of a constructor of machines’. Now it is ‘the beloved signature of the Parisian skyline and an officially designated monument to boot’ (Costonis 1989:64).
