Movement
City Beautiful Movement
Explore in the Atlas →A turn-of-the-century North American urban-reform movement using Beaux-Arts monumentality, grand boulevards and civic centres to instil order and moral virtue; launched by Daniel Burnham's 1893 'White City' and the Plan of Chicago (1909).
Settlement Power
Details
- Origin
- United States
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- ReasonAncestry
- Subject
- Human centred
- Cosmological orientation
- Cardinal axes
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Pattern based
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- Beaux-Arts Architecture influenced
- Lewis Mumford associated with
Sources
- William H. Wilson. The City Beautiful Movement. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "City Beautiful Movement." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/movement/city-beautiful/. Accessed July 17, 2026.