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Blog Posts tagged: City Beautiful

A proposed civic centre for Vancouver (part of the Bartholomew Plan, 1928). The City Beautiful movement – urban design and moral well-being

The possibility that cities affect human behaviour is an enticing one, and the origins of this notion go back several millennia to the time of Plato. The basic idea of this relationship – between built form and ways of being... Continue reading »

February 4, 2016   |   0 comments

 

 

 

 

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