ASHFAQ K ALIAR

WHY 1893
HOW
With the construction of the
The City Beautiful movement fair’s temporary city, the so-
emerged at a time in U.S. called White City where visitors
history when the country were treated to a harmony of
experienced rapid Neoclassical and Baroque
urbanization. Most city architecture from the
dwellers perceived that cities collaborative designs of
were ugly, congested, dirty, architects from the École des
and unsafe. As cities grew, an Beaux-Arts in Paris. The
increasingly rapid condition landscape for the Exposition
enhanced by an influx of included lagoons and big
immigrants at the end of the
19th century- public space was WHERE green expanses and was
designed by Frederick Law
being usurped leading to Through the City Beautiful
Olmsted. Started by Daniel
increased congestion. Design, Burnham believed
Burnham Launched at
that it can provide
World’s Columbian
‘breathing spaces’ for
Exposition
healthy activities to those
citizens who could not
afford to travel and heavily
reliant on the city to
provide recreational and
cultural enrichment.
BACKGROUND
• The movement began in the United States in response to crowding in tenement districts, a
consequence of high birth rates, increased immigration and internal migration of rural
populations into cities.
• 1) Construction of monuments 2) formal garden plans 3) semi-detached villas
• Style : Contemporary Beaux-Arts and neoclassical architecture, which emphasized the
necessity of order, dignity, and harmony