ABSTRACT
The second half of the nineteenth century creates a bridge to modernity. Paris, greatly rebuilt following the revolution of 1848, will serve as the preeminent urban model, to be emulated both in Vienna and in Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennet’s plan for Chicago. The Viennese architect Camillo Sitte emerges as an interesting counter-voice, presaging some present concerns with how people experience a city. The idea of the garden city materializes at the start of the twentieth-century and will have major impact on urban thinking, although the preeminent example in England is not a garden city but the garden suburb of Hampstead. An exposition on Barcelona, and the genius of Antonio Gaudi share a section with perhaps the most revolutionary garden city of all—Hellerau with its profound biological and psychological insights worthy of revisiting today. The section on capital cities considers Tony Garnier’s industrial city and New Delhi, but only briefly. The gem of the new cities created in the twentieth century was Canberra, whose design importance would take another half-century to be appreciated and eventually realized. The “Cities of Glass” is a brief homily on Bruno Taut’s drawings under the blackened skies of World War I.
