Episode 15: A Company Town, a White City, and a Garden City Walk Into a Bar...

From company towns to the 1893 World’s Fair and the birth of the City Beautiful Movement, to the birth of the Garden City Movement in the book Tomorrow:  A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, planning theory and ideology really started to take shape in the final decades of the 1800’s.

 

Pullman, Illinois

http://www.pullmanil.org/town.htm#:~:text=The%20model%20industrial%20town%20of,of%20Pullman's%20Palace%20Car%20Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman,_Chicago

https://www.history.com/news/5-famous-company-towns

https://www.nps.gov/pull/learn/historyculture/a-brief-overview-of-the-pullman-story.htm

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-from-factory-town-to-national-monument-brief-history-of-the-pullman-historic-district-20150218-htmlstory.html

 

1893 Chicago World’s Fair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Burnham

http://www.architecture.org/learn/resources/architecture-dictionary/entry/worlds-columbian-exposition-of-1893/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/chicago-worlds-columbian-exposition-1893/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition

 

City Beautiful

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Beautiful_movement

https://www.britannica.com/topic/City-Beautiful-movement

https://www.nypap.org/preservation-history/city-beautiful-movement/

 

Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Cities_of_To-morrow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Howard

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/dec/05/ebenezer-howards-three-magnets