chicago worlds columbian exposition 1893 city beautiful movement
chicago worlds columbian exposition 1893 city beautiful movement Daniel Burnham and Fredrick Law Olmsted believed that a new aesthetic approach to the built environment held the power to ail social order.By IBI Insights Date April 4, 2019By 1910 America was on the verge of an urban majority population, marking a pivotal moment in the nation’s history. From 1860 to 1910, the US population tripled from 31.4 million to 91.9 million residents. The industrial revolution was drastically changing the American landscape and people clustered in the urban centers in search of manufacturing jobs. Cities could not support the mass migration and quickly became overcrowded, consumed by poverty and poor sanitation. Overall urban ugliness at alongside corrupt government structures set the tone for social unrest, labour strikes and disease. Those who could afford to do so took advantage of modern transportation advances and retreated from the city to escape the growing blight. Architect and Urban Designer, Daniel Burnham, and Landscape Architect, Fredrick Law-Olmsted recognized the dismal state of American urban affairs and hoped to reverse these conditions. They believed that the built environment held the power to permeate the urban psyche and foster a more civil society. Their ideology became known at the City Beautiful Movement and was first introduced at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
The City Beautiful Movement takes inspiration from the seductive grand plazas, wide avenues, symmetrical design and monuments that adorn the popular French Beaux-Arts style of architecture. Olmsted and Burnham believed that citizens would be so dazzled by life in a Beaux-Arts city that it would inspire them to respect their environment and in turn become loyal, dignified citizens. During this period of civic monstrosity, the City Beautiful Movement held the cure to ail social woes. After the World’s Columbian Exhibition, the movement gathered support from progressives, reformists and utopians across North America. In 1901, Washington D.C. produced a comprehensive planning document for its monument core based on City Beautiful ideas. The plan, titled The McMillan Plan, proposed eliminating the existing Victorian landscaping of the National Mall and instead replacing it with grass for people to use for leisure. The City Beautiful movement believed that inclusive green spaces provided a place where the lower classes of society could learn appropriate social behaviors by observing upper class citizens. By immersing people in a beautiful and cultural environment, the external enrichment would supposedly trickle into the minds of the public. This ideology is also reflected in the McMillan Plans’ proposal to construct several monuments and museums along the Mall’s east-west axis. While the McMillan Plan was never implemented in full, it continues to guide Washington’s urban planning policies today.
Daniel Burnham introduced the world to the City Beautiful Movement during the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Throughout the early 20th century, cities across North America- and the globe- began to implement Olmsted and Burnham’s ideas. Chicago, San Francisco, Manila, Regina, Ottawa, Seattle, Denver and more all utilized City Beautiful concepts to boost civic moral. During the Great Depression, ornate City Beautiful projects were put to rest, but the movement remains a central influence to urban planners and designers. The City Beautiful Movement brought light to the aesthetic relationship between the social and physical architecture of the city, an idea that persists at the core of human-centered planning and design today.
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The CITY BEAUTIFUL MOVEMENT was a reform philosophy of North American architecture and urban planning that occurred during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities. American architects of the time such as Richard Morris Hunt, George Post, and Daniel Burnham brought ideas of wide scale planning to America after seeing how successful these plans were in Europe, specifically Paris.
Burnham was considered the leader of the City Beautiful movement, which he hoped would bring American cities to a cultural parity with Europe’s great urban centers. Burnham and his colleagues saw the United States as the rightful heir to the traditions of Western culture that first began in Europe. They believed in celebrating and using those traditions themselves.
The success of the 1893 Columbian Exposition threw Burnham to national prominence, which helped him to publicize the advantages of the City Beautiful Movement. The first city to follow through with the movement was Washington D.C, through the McMillan plan. The McMillan plan was considered a success, which prompted other cities throughout the country to implement similar City Beautiful plans. Cleveland was one of the cities that wished to implement a city beautiful plan, as business and community leaders recognized a need for a new city hall, post office, court house, convention hall, and library. Vinod Sardesai
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The City Beautiful Movement led to the creation of numerous art societies seeking to obtain legislative means for aesthetic regulation in New York City. This idea eventually led to the preservation of historic structures for the public good with the passage of the Bard Act and the New York City Landmarks Law. The Municipal Art Society was one organization that was formed as part of the City Beautiful Movement. Upon returning home from Chicago after the World's Fair, prominent New York artists and visitors realized the potential for New York to gleam as a beacon for the arts and urban design. On a more fundamental level, artists took with them the idea that art was not just for the elite but was to be shared with the public.8 These artists, including William Vanderbilt Allen and Evageline Blashfield decided to form the Municipal Art Society. Their mission was to promote the idea that public art was for the benefit of the public and promoted an enhanced state of being.9 In addition, Albert S. Bard played a pivotal role in the City Beautiful Movement in New York City. He was a lawyer with an affinity for the arts. Like his contemporaries, the World's Fair had also provided him with the idea that a city could be regulated for aesthetic purposes. He joined the Municipal Art Society in 1901, joined its board in 1911, became its Secretary in 1912, and its President in 1917.10 Bard's influence on the City Beautiful Movement would lead to drafting the Bard Act, which enabled municipalities to pass laws for aesthetic regulation of private property.11 The City Beautiful Movement inspired residents of New York City to fight for the regulation of billboard advertisements. New York City at the turn of the century had no laws protecting the physical fabric of the City. By the 1870s, large billboard advertising signs dotted the urban landscape.12 There were some nascent efforts to control billboard signage. In 1896, for instance, the Parks Commissioner passed a law removing billboards from public parks.13 However, by 1911, New York City was reported to have 3.8 million square feet of billboard advertisements.14 Art societies, including the Municipal Art Society and the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, began to use billboard regulation as a way to beautify the City. The Municipal Art Society, along with Albert Bard, worked on legislative measures to regulate the billboard placement in the City.15 In 1913, the Mayor set up a commission to find methods for billboard regulation called the Mayor's Billboard Advertising Commission of the City of New York. Robert G. Cooke, head of the commission, claimed that the advertisements "rob the people of their rightful heritage of natural beauty."16 Eventually the 1916 zoning resolution, which divided the City into specific areas or zones, worked to set up rules for billboard signage on public property.17 The problem, however, appeared to be regulation of private property for aesthetic reasons for the benefit of the public. The initial efforts waged by Bard and the Municipal Art Society served as a "progenitor" of the Bard Act eventually leading to the passage of the Landmarks Law.18 The Bard Act in many ways owes its existence to the City Beautiful Movement.19 The fundamental idea of this movement was that the livability of cities was essential to the health, welfare, and safety of the people. By beautifying the city, the government was providing a benefit to the public overriding private interests. The Bard Act passed in 1956, and permitted local municipalities enabling legislation to pass laws that regulate the aesthetics of the city. The "police powers" were extended to mean that the regulation of the physical environment promoted the health, safety, and welfare of the people. In turn, the passing of the Bard Act paved the way for the New York City Landmarks Law because it gave the power of the City to pass legislation for aesthetic regulation. Historic buildings were now seen as enhancing city blocks and promoting a charming feel to neighborhoods. Preserving historic structures would soon be included in these aesthetic regulations when the New York City Landmarks Law was passed. This idea was predicated on the "police powers" in which preserving structures of cultural and historic significance was providing a service to the public by enhancing the aesthetic environment of the City.20 |
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