Major Planning Movements

Question 1

City Beautiful

Answer 1

-address problems poverty, crime, blight etc.
- Daniel Burnham, White City in Chicago
- McMillan Plan 1901- Washington DC

Question 2

Garden City

Answer 2

Ebenezer Howard (Tomorrow: A peaceful path to real reform) –> 1902 Garden ities of Tomorrow

self contained, 32000 people, 6000 AC

-Letchworth-first english city of it’s kind (1903)
-Sunnyside Gardens- first effort in NY (1922) (Clarence Stein)
-Radburn, NJ - first American Graden City 1928 (Clarence Stein)

Question 3

City Efficient

Answer 3

-reaction against City Beautiful
-focused on function and efficiency

Question 4

City Humane

Answer 4

-focused on jobs/housing after The Great Depression (1930)

Question 5

Green Towns Program

Answer 5

based on Ebenezer Howard
Greendale, WI
Greenhills, OH
Greenbelt, MD

Question 6

City Functional

Answer 6

1940s, growth of the military and post-war industrilizatoin, emphased administrative efficiency