URSI 110--The City

US:  Gilded Age (1880-1910)

Key Ideas:

City Form

·        City Beautiful Movement

o       Beaux Arts 1

o       Daniel Burnham & Chicago Plan 1, 2, 3, 4

§         Unity of Plan

§         Unity of Architecture

§         Scale of All Elements in Harmony

§         Unification of All Arts

§         Two types of Beauty:

1.      Individual

2.      Relational

o       Columbian Exposition 1893 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

·        Ebeneezer Howard (Garden Cities) 1, 2

·        Company Towns:  Pullman IL 1, 2, 3

·        Styles

o       Craftsman/Mission 1, 2, 3

o       Prairie Style

Transportation

·        Streetcars & Subways 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Public Buildings

·        Cast iron fronts 1

·        Elevator & structural steel 1, 2, 3

·        Special structures

o       Statue of Liberty (1884-86)

o       Ferris wheel (1893)

o       Buckingham Fountain

o       Washington Monument (1909)

Commercial/Industrial

Residential/Daily Life

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Revised 24 May 06