City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban Planning

"This Element discusses how urbanists have long portrayed urban design and planning models globally, but the American City Beautiful has been less explored due to its ethnocentric focus on North America. Despite its popularity waning in North America, American-inspired plans were implemented worldwide, despite cultural and political conditions"--

List of contents

1. Introduction: American city beautiful planning and its place within the study of global urban history; 2. The British city beautiful; 3. The American city beautiful in Southeast Asia: the Philippines; 4. City beautiful planning and nation-building: Australia; 5. China and the advent of large-scale modern city planning; 6. Understanding planning ideas and practices from a global historical perspective; Acknowledgements; References.

Summary

This Element discusses how urbanists have long portrayed urban design and planning models globally, but the American City Beautiful has been less explored due to its ethnocentric focus on North America. Despite its popularity waning in North America, American-inspired plans were implemented worldwide, despite cultural and political conditions.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Morley, Ian (Department of History Morley, Morley Ian
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2025
• EAN: 9781009598767
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0959876-7
• No. of pages: 98
• Series: Elements in Global Urban History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / World, General & world history, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, General and world history, Urban and municipal planning and policy, City and town planning: architectural aspects