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19th Century Park and Boulevard Plans: From Paris to Kansas City
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on December 7, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
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limiting, entertainment, Haussmann, frozen, mistakes, back, never, depression, improved, WWII, enticed, legacy, organized, European, parks, automobiles, education, trolley, business, pollution, industrialized, urban, modern, progressive, 1930, Boulevard, White, discrimination, traffic, awnings, retail, built, sewer, prototype, chaotic, Kessler, trees
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1950 was a long time ago
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but cities of around 1950 where people went to a single            center to work, shop, and                            are still what many people think cities are or should be
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evolution of cities were              by
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1929 worldwide                     
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1939-1945         
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after destruction in WWII, building began again with established systems and more              buildings
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the central business district
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central railway station
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government
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most office buildings
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the best             
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leading hotels
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theaters and restaurants
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expensive residential districts fronting on landscaped park lands
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surrounded by industry except for the most fashionable streets leading to the best suburbs
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working class people lived near factories
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middle class were connected to central district via street car lines
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this format corrected large                  that were made with cities when they were first                             
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how cities adapted to industrialization
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1850 Paris
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in 1850, Paris was the most                        city in the entire world
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new, wide, straight streets were cut through the city
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to manage the                in the rapidly growing city
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to connect from the north train station to the south train station
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new streets were accompanied by new            and water supply systems
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large            created
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Baron                   , main designer
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Parisian Boulevard became the model for many other                  cities
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wide enough for traffic
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space for           
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light fixtures
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public places that                people to come out in their spare time both day and night
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people could now sit in tables on sidewalk under               
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this could            happen in pre-industrial cities where streets were                places jumbled and full of traffic
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at this time, Paris was the world capital for architectural                   
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tree-lined boulevards
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civic places
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lined with elegant buildings
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1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago
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planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus' first voyage
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opened a year late
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large exhibit "           City" produced by Ecole des Beaux Arts of Paris
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became a model for other cities
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thereafter every city seemed to want a park and boulevard plan for itself
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1909 Park and Boulevard plan for Chicago
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Chicago was never able to realize the plan since it didn't have laws                  the height of building as Paris did
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Civic Center was never           
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buildings along the waterfront was carried out thanks in part to Montgomery Ward
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Michigan Avenue is also a              of the 1909 Chicago plan
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1919 Kansas City
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car ownership was beginning to have an effect on cities as people began to live further way from the city center
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George               
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landscape architect for Kansas City's Park and                    Plan 1892-1915
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became a                    for park and boulevard plan adopted by so many cities in the 1920s
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Country Club District
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a corrective to the industrial city
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               connected it to downtown
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development began before automobiles were in widespread use
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but car ownership made it successful
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in 1929 alone, 5.3 million cars were manufactured in the United States
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by         , there were 30 million cars on the road in the United States
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one for 3 households out of 4
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Country Club Plaza
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one of the first suburban shopping centers
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apartments across the creek overlooking the shopping district
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this area was                  in the 1980s
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1935 Downtown Kansas City
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much more utilitarian place than the plaza
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business-like places that were dominated by                 
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North America adopted to                        much more quickly than the rest of the world
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since 1950
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cities are no longer the way their were in 1950
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in most cases, we wouldn't want to go          to the way they were
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the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City was built on a foundation of                              and deed restrictions
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many cities were in the grip of                    crime
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many people lived in cramped apartments or very small houses
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there was much more industrial                    and more slum conditions

People:

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French engineer of the Corps des ponts under Napoléon III, participated in the renovation of Paris directed by Baron Haussmann between 1852 and 1870
  • notable accomplishments include: le square du Temple, Avenue de l'Observatoire, Parc Monceau, parc Montsouris, le bois de Vincennes, and bois de Boulogne
  • worked with engineer Eugène Belgrand
  • also worked with landscape architect Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps
Cities before the Industrial Revolution
Cities in the Industrial Revolution
19th Century Park and Boulevard Plans: From Paris to Kansas City
Megacities and Megaregions