City Life (9781476737348) by Rybczynski Witold

Author:Rybczynski, Witold
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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I. In his 1909 Plan of Chicago, which I will discuss later, Daniel Burnham never uses the term “City Beautiful”; nor did Werner Hegemann and Elbert Peets in The American Vitruvius.

II. Although Burnham’s plan did not anticipate the mass ownership of cars and the effect that this would have on the downtown—production of Henry Ford’s Model T was started in 1908, but low prices did not come into effect until about 1914—he did accurately foresee that the automobile would accelerate the growth of the suburbs.

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