J- Historical Places

Question 0

World’s Columbian exhibition

Answer 0

Daniel Burnham and
Frederick Law Olmsted

Chicago 1893

Beaux-Arts principles and French neoclassical

Question 1

Piazza Saint Peter

Answer 1

Bernini
1650 Rome

Greatest # ppl could see pope
Doric columns in huge scale

Question 2

Savannah, Georgia

City Plan

Answer 2

James Edward Oglethorpe

1770s Georgia

First colonial town on grid system
Groups of 40 houses down by major streets
Section has a public square

Question 3

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

City plan

Answer 3

William Penn

1690s Pennsylvania
Preplanned utopian city based on a grid

Question 4

Letchworth Garden City

Answer 4

Ebenezer Howard 1903

Hertfordshire, England
The world’s first Garden City

Question 5

Welwen Garden City

Answer 5

Ebenezer how are 1920

Second Garden City and one of the first new towns

Question 6

New town

Answer 6

Towns built after World War II to move people from decrepit cities into new suburban developments

Question 7

Radburn, New Jersey

Answer 7

Clarence Stein
1928

First garden city in USA
Underpasses for pedestrians

Question 8

Reston, Virginia

Answer 8

Robert Simon 1964

Influenced by Radburn plan

Question 9

Williamsburg, Virginia

Answer 9

1920s Goodwin and Rockefeller

Restored/preserved/reconstructed to become the Colonial Williamsburg foundation

Question 10

Charleston, South Carolina

Answer 10

1931

Historic district