print email comment close The City Beautiful Movement URL: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/CITYBEAUTIFUL/city.html Description: Overview of the problems that cities faced at the end of the 19th century and the rise of the "City Beautiful" movement. "The first organized expression of the City Beautiful movement as a means of beautification and social control" was the 1901 plan for Washington, D.C., designed by Daniel Burnham. Includes an analysis of the successes and failures of both the plan and the movement, as well as a bibliography. Publisher: University of Virginia Library of Congress Subject Headings: City planning Washington (D.C.) LII Database Information: Record 16858 created by Dana Lubow on 10/24/1999 Last modification on 06/23/2009 Published: 06/23/2009   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/16858