15 Urban Planning in the Early 20th
Century
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Evolution of Urban Planning in the 20
th
Century
Charles M.
Robinson
Daniel H.
Burnham
The City Beautiful
1893 – c. 1909
Impacts of the Garden City
Movement in America
1900’s – 1930’s
Ebenezer Howard (1850
‐
1928)
First National Conference on
City Planning of 1909 initiates
a gradual shift of strategy in
city planning
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15 Urban Planning in the Early 20th
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Forest Hills Gardens
Queens, NY – 1909
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
Grosvenor Atterbury, architect
Inspired by Ebeneezer Howard’s Garden City model
John Nolen
(1869 – 1937)
“Dean of American City Planners”
•
Over 450 projects – comprehensive
plans for 29 cities and 27 new towns
•
Strong administrative, economic and
philosophic convictions provided an
underpinning for his work
•
Helped create the National
Conference on City Planning (1909)
and the International Garden Cities
and Town Planning Federation (1913)
•
Author of
New Ideals in the Planning
of Cities, Towns and Villages
(1919)
and
New Towns for Old
(1927)
Kingsport, Tennessee
1905 +
Mariemont, Ohio
1923

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