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Urban Planning, 1794-1918
Bibliography of Source Material in the Anthology
Arranged by Main Subject

The 15 subject categories presented below can provide only a rough guide to the contents of the anthology. You should understand that the majority of the selections deal with more than one topic. Open and skim other documents from the alphabetical bibliography or the chronological bibliography whose authors, titles, or dates suggest they may be appropriate for your purpose.


1. Prototype and Ideal Town Plans
2. Principles and Techniques for Planning Vacant Sites
3. Principles, Standards, and Procedures for Planning Existing Towns or Their Extensions
4. Surveys of Urban Planning Programs and Progress
5. City Beautification and Urban Embellishment
6. Discussions of Single Components of the City Plan
7. Urban Planning and Improvement Programs in Europe
8. Planning Principles and Proposals Applied to a Selected City
9. Land-Use Regulations
10. Roles of Architects, Engineers, Landscape Architects in City Planning
11. Models of Good Planning
12. Urban Planning Policy and Administrative Organization
13. The Model City Exhibit in 1904 at the St. Louis World's Fair
14. Australian Federal Capital Competition of 1911-12.
15. Miscellaneous


1. Prototype and Ideal Town Plans

Andersen, Hendrik Christian. "A World Center for Peace." The Independent 84 (October 1915):152.

Anon. "Architecture In The United States." The American Journal of Science and Arts 17 (January 1830):99-110; and (April 1830):249-273.

Buckingham, James S. "Plan of the Model Town." Buckingham, National Evils and Practical Remedies, with The Plan of a Model Town. (London: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son, & Co., 1849):183-196 and Supplementary Sheet: 196-199

Cabet, Etienne Cabet. "Icara." Cabet, Voyage en Icarie (Paris, 1842.) Passage pp. 39-55 translated by editors and reprinted in Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel (eds.), French Utopias: An Anthology of Ideal Societies (New York: Schocken Books, 1971):332-338.

Caryl, Charles W. "Brief Outline Of The Proposed Plan For Building The New Era Model City." Caryl,New Era: Presenting the Plans for The New Era Union To Help Develop and Utilize the Best Resources of this Country (Denver: Chas. W. Caryl, [1897]):103-118.

David, C. St. John. "The Federal Capital." Launceston, Tasmania, The Examiner February 2, 1901.

Edwards, A. Trystan. "A World Centre of Communication." Town Planning Review 5 (April 1914):14-30.

Gerard, P. How to Build a City. Philadelphia: Review Printing House, 1872.

Gillette, King Champ. The Human Drift. Boston: New Era Publishing Co., 1894. Reprinted: Delmar, N.Y.: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, Inc., 1976.

Howard, Ebenezer. "Garden Cities of To-morrow." Garden Cities of To- Morrow (London, 1902. Reprinted, edited with a Preface by F. J. Osborn and an Introductory Essay by Lewis Mumford. (London: Faber and Faber, [1946]):50-57, 138-147.

Lamb, Charles R. "City Plan." The Craftsman 6 (April 1904):3-13.

Maslen, T. J. "On Laying Out Plans of Towns." The Friend of Australia: Or, a Plan for Exploring the Interior, and for Carrying on a Survey of the Whole Continent of Australia by a Retired Officer of the Hon. East India Company's Service. (London: Hurst, Chance and Co., 1830).

Moore, Anon. [pseud. for James M. Galloway].John Harvey: A Tale of the Twentieth Century.(Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 1897).

Muller, Rudolf. "The City of the Future: Hexagonal Building Concept for a New [Land] Division. Osterreichische Wochenschrift fur den offentlich Baudienst XIV, Jg. 1908.

Owen, Robert, "General Arrangements Of The Proposed Home Colonies." A Development of the Principles and Plans on which to Establish Self-Supporting Home colonies.... (London: Home Colonization Society, 1841): 37-40.

Owen, Robert."Report To The Committee Of The Association For The Relief Of The Manufacturing And Labouring Poor," (1817). A Supplementary Appendix to the First Volume of the Life of Robert Owen.... (London: Effingham Wilson, 1858, Vol. I.A, Appendix I. No. 1, 1817).

Pemberton, Robert "Queen Victoria Town." The Happy Colony. London: Saunders and Otley, 1854.

Sharp, Granville. "Explanation Of The Annexed Plan." Sharp, A General Plan for Laying Out Towns and Townships, on the New-Acquired Lands in the East Indies, America, or Elsewhere...(London?: n.p., 1794).

Smith, Joseph. "The Plat Of The City Of Zion--its Temples--Correspondence On Affairs In Zion...." Smith, History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.Period I. History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet by Himself. Volume I (Salt Lake City: Desert Book Co., 2ed. rev., 1961)

Warren, Josiah. "Points Suggested for Consideration in Laying Out Towns." Practical Applications of the Elementary Principles of "True Civilization", to the Minute Details of Every Day Life. Being Part III, the Last of the "True Civilization" Series.... (Princeton, Mass.: Published by the Author, 1873):45-47.

Whitwell, Stedman. Description of an Architectural Model From a Design by Stedman Whitwell, Esq. for a Community Upon a Principle of United Interests, as Advocated by Robert Owen, Esq. (London: Hurst Chance & Co.: 1830).

Wooldridge, C. W. "City Named Fort Goodwill." Wooldridge, Perfecting the Earth: a Piece of Possible History. Cleveland: The Utopia Publishing Company, 1902: 39, 48-57.

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2. Principles and Techniques for City Planning on Vacant Sites

Anderson, J. T. Noble. "A Twentieth Century City." Proceedings at the Congress of Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Others Interested in the Building of the Federal Capital, Held in Melbourne, in May, 1901.(Melbourne: J.C. Stephens, Printer, 1901):18-21.

Bell, George N. "The Development of Suburban Property." Proceedings of the Engineer's Club of Philadelphia7 (May 1890):322-324.

Broadhurst, R. Henson. "Suggestions Concerning the Laying out of the Commonwealth Capital." Proceedings at the Congress of Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Others Interested in the Building of the Federal Capital, Held in Melbourne, in May, 1901.(Melbourne: J.C. Stephens, Printer, 1901):14-17.

Dorsey, W.H. "The Laying Out of Towns." Engineering News 26 (29 August 1891):192-93.

Griffin, J. G. "The City Beautiful. Australia's Supreme Opportunity." Sydney Morning Herald 30 December 1911.

Inskip, G. C. "The Federal City. A Few Suggestions." Proceedings at the Congress of Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Others Interested in the Building of the Federal Capital, Held in Melbourne, in May, 1901. (Melbourne: J.C. Stephens, Printer, 1901): 30-32.

Haupt, Lewis. "Planning the Site for a City." The Engineering Magazine 8 (January 1895):626-637.

Jones, G. Sydney, A.R.I.B.A. "Some Thoughts Concerning the Federal City." Proceedings at the Congress of Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Others Interested in the Building of the Federal Capital, Held in Melbourne, in May, 1901. (Melbourne: J.C. Stephens, Printer, 1901):22-25.

Keily, Captain J. "Study on Unity of Design in Planning New Towns and New Suburbs." Victorian Institute of Surveyors, Transactions and Proceedings (September 1889):88-104.

Knibbs, G.[eorge] H. "The Theory of City Design." Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales for 1901 35 (1901):62-112.

Leffmann, Henry. "The Building of the City." Proceedings of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia28 (January 1911):1-12.

Mills, Stephen. "On The Laying- out Of Towns. Remarks On Mr. Sulman's Paper Published In The February Number Of This Journal." The Surveyor 2 (March 4, 1890):5-9.

Price, W.[illiam] H. "Town Planning: Laying Out New Towns and Cities." In Thomas Cole, ed., Proceedings of the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers 34 (1912-1913), 42-57.

South Australian Institute of Surveyors."Comments by the South Australian Institute of Surveyors Incorporated, Upon Mr. Sulman's Paper On `The Laying Out Of Towns,'" Report of the Fifth Meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, Adelaide, South Australia, September, 1893.

Sulman, John. "The Laying Out of Towns." A Paper read before Section J of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, at Melbourne University in January, 1890. Reprinted in Sulman, An Introduction to the Study of Town Planning in Australia (Sydney: Government Printer of New South Wales, 1921): Appendix A, 214-216

U. S. Department Of Labor, Bureau Of Industrial Housing And Transportation, United States Housing Corporation, Town Planning Division. "Suggestions to Town Planners." August 26, 1918. U.S. Appendix IX in Report of the United States Housing Corporation.

Ward, Thomas. "Essay On The Subdivision Of Town, Suburban And Country Lands." The Surveyor: the Journal of the Institution of Surveyors, New South Wales 20 (31 December 1907):212-225.

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3. Principles, Standards, and Procedures for Planning Existing Towns or Their Extensions.

Anon. "Architecture In The United States." The American Journal of Science and Arts 17 (January 1830):99-110; and (April 1830):249-273.

Anon. "Shaping of Towns, The."American Architect and Building News 2 (June 23, 1877):195-96.

Arnold, Bion J., John R. Freeman, and Frederick Law Olmsted [Jr.]. City Planning for Pittsburgh: Outline and Procedure. A Report [1909]. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Civic Commission, 1910.

Baker, Herbert, "Architecture and Town Planning." The African Architect 1 (1 August 1911):68-73

Baumeister, Reinhard, "Town Extensions: Their Links With Technical And Economic Concerns And With Building Regulations." Excerpt from Baumeister, Stadterweiterungen in Technischer, Baupolizeilicher und Wirtschaftlicher Beziehung (Berlin: Ernest & Korn, 1876), as translated by Frank Koester in his Modern City Planning and Maintenance (New York: McBride, Nast and Company, 1914): 45-49.

Bottge, F. "The Art Of Laying Out Cities." Cassier's Magazine: An Engineering Monthly 38 (October 1910):483-489.

Davidge, W.R. "Town Planning Systems." The Surveyors' Institution Transactions 42 (1909-1910):31-63.

Ford, George B. "The City Scientific." Engineering Record 67 (May 17, 1913):551-52. [Excerpted from Ford, "The City Scientific." Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on City Planning. Boston: National Conference on City Planning, 1913, 31-41.]

Ford, George B. "The Technical Phases of City Planning." In Benjamin Clarke Marsh, An Introduction to City Planning: Democracy's Challenge to the American City (New York: Privately Printed, [1909]):123-136.

Gerhard, William Paul. "The Laying-out Of Cities And Towns." Journal of the Franklin Institute140 (August 1895):90-99

Germany. Incorporated Society of Architects and Engineers. "Planning Towns And Cities: Principles Advocated By German Authorities For Future Growth, Squares, Class Districts And Buildings." Municipal Journal and Engineer 22 (March 6, 1907):224-227.

Hénard, Eugène. "The Cities of the Future." In Royal Institute of British Architects, Town Planning Conference London, 10-15 October 1910, Transactions (London: The Royal Institute of British Architects, 1911):345-367.

Hughes, T. Harold. "The Principles to be Observed in Designing and Laying Out Towns Treated from the Architectural Standpoint." Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects(7 December 1912):65-82; and (21 December 1912):125-132.

Koester, Frank. "American City Planning." The American Architect 102 (October 23, 1912): 141-146.

Lewis, Nelson P. "Planning New City Areas." Municipal Journal and Engineer 28 (May 11, 1910):699-700.

Marsh, Benjamin."City Planning In Justice To The Working Population." Charities and the Commons19 (February 1, 1908):1514-1518.

Marsh, Benjamin C. "Economic Aspects of City Planning." Municipal Engineers of the City of New York, Proceedings, Paper No. 57 (1910):73-87.

Matthews, Ernest R. "Town Planning From An Engineering Aspect: Suggestions For Laying Out Residential And Manufacturing Districts." Engineering Record 66 (14 December 1912):662-664.

Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr. "Introduction." [Basic Principles of City Planning]. In John Nolen (ed.), City Planning: A Series of Papers Presenting the Essential Elements of a City Plan(New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1916):1-18.

Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr. "The City Beautiful." The Builder 101 (July 7, 1911):15-17.

Peabody, R. S. "Notes for Three Lectures on Municipal Improvements Delivered Before the School of Architecture of Harvard University in April 1912." The Architectural Quarterly of Harvard University 1 (September 1912):84-104.

Pray, James Sturgis. "The Survey for a City Plan." Landscape Architecture 5 (October 1914):5-14.

Royal Institute of British Architects, Town Planning Committee. "Suggestions To Promoters Of Town Planning Schemes" Royal Institute of British Architects Journal 3rd ser. 18, (26 August 1911):661-668.

Stübben, F. [sic]. "Practical And Aesthetic Principles For The Laying Out Of Cities." trans. by W. H. Searles, Prepared for the International Engineering Congress of the Columbian Exposition, 1893 as an advance Copy of a portion of the Transactionsof the American Society of Civil Engineers. [Originally presented at a meeting of the Deutschen Vereins für öffentliche Gesundheitspflege, held at Freiburg, Germany, September, 1885.]

United Society of German Architects and Engineers. "[Basic Principles Of Enlarging a City 1874"]. Agreed To By German Experts In 1874. Trans by Frank Koester in his Modern City Planning and Maintenance (New York: McBride, Nast and Company, 1914):44-45.

Wagner, Otto. "The Development of a Great City." The Architectural Record 31 (May 1912):485-500.

Waring, J. B. "On The Laying Out Of Cities." Papers Read at the Royal Institute of British Architects. Session 1872-73. London: The Institute, 1873: 141-155.

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4. Surveys of Urban Planning Programs and Progress

Anon. "City Planning and Replanning."Engineering News 58 (October 31, 1907):470-471.

Ford, George B. "The Scope of City Planning in the United States." City Planning. Hearing Before the Committee on the District of Columbia United States Senate on the Subject of City Planning. 61st Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Document No. 422. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910, 70-73.

Haldeman, B. Antrim. "A Review of the Progress of City Planning." Proceedings of the Engineer's Club of Philadelphia 28 (July 1911):215-245.

Howe, Frederick C. "The Remaking of the American City." Harper's Monthly Magazine 127 (July 1913): 186-197.

McFarland, J. Horace. "The Growth of City Planning in America." Charities and The Commons19 (February 2, 1908):1522-1528.

Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr. "The Town-Planning Movement In America." Housing and Town Planning. The Annals 51 (January 1914):172-181.

Robinson, Charles Mulford. "Improvement in City Life: Aesthetic Progress." Atlantic Monthly 83 (June 1899): 771-185.

Robinson, Charles Mulford. "City Planning in Denver and Los Angeles." City Planning. Hearing Before the Committee on the District of Columbia United States Senate on the Subject of City Planning. 61st Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Document No. 422 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910):89-91.

Schermerhorn, Richard, Jr. "City Planning." Brooklyn Engineers' Club, Proceedings 16 (1912):102-143.

Yorath, Christopher J. "Town Planning." The Western Municipal News 8 (September 1913): 298-300.

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5. City Beautification and Urban Embellishment

Anon. "Demands for the City Beautiful."Municipal Journal and Engineer 21 (September 5, 1906):243.

Buls, Charles. "City Aesthetics." Municipal Affairs 3 (December 1899):732-741.

Carrère, John M. "City Improvement from the Artist Standpoint." Western Architect15 (April 1910):40-41, 44.

Eberlein, Harold Donaldson. "Aviation and Civic Improvements." American Homes and Gardens 9 (September 1912):301-307, 336.

Maslen, T. J. "A Few Hints for Beautifying Towns in Australia." Suggestions for the Improvement of our Towns and Houses (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1843):154-56

Perkins, Lucy Fitch. "Municipal Art." The Chautauquan 36 (February 1903):516-527

Robinson, Charles Mulford. "Planning for City Beauty." Municipal Journal and Engineer 21 (September 5, 1906):230-231.

Schopfer, Jean. "Art in the City;" "The Plan of a City;" and "The furnishing of a City." Architectural Record 12 (November 1902):573-583; 12 (December 1902):693-703; and 13 (January 1903):42-48.

Sitte, Camillo. "Modern Systems" and "Artistic Limitation of Modern City Planning." In Sitte, City Planning According to Artistic Principles (1889). Translated by George R. Collins and Christiane Crasemann Collins. (London: Phaidon Press, 1965):91-104;105-112.

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6. Discussions of Single Components of the City Plan

Anon. "Diagonal Avenues in Cities."Engineering News 26 (10 October 1891):334-35.

Haldeman, B. Antrim. "The Street Layout." Housing and Town Planning. The Annals 51 (January 1914):182-191.

Haupt, Lewis. "On The Best Arrangement Of City Streets." Journal of the Franklin Institute 103 (April 1877):252-257.

Lanchester, Henry Vaughan. Park Systems For Great Cities." The Builder 95 (October 3, 1908):343-348.

Owen, James. "Principles For The Laying Out Of Cities. Discussion On Paper No. 632." Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers 30 (December 1893):591-593.

Paul, Hosea, "The Systematic Division of Land. A Preliminary Study." Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies 3 ([April] 1884):87-97

Petavel, J. W. "The Town Planning Of The Future." The Westminster Review 172 (October 1909:398-405.

Richardson, B. W. "Modern Sanitary Science--A City of Health." Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine 14 (January 1876):31-42. Reprinted from Nature 12 (October 14, 1875):523-25; (October 21, 1875):542-545.

Robinson, Charles Mulford. "The Street Plan of a City's Business District." Architectural Record13 (March 1903):233-247).

Shurtleff, Arthur A. "The Street Plan of the Metropolitan District of Boston." Landscape Architecture1 (January 1911): 71-83.

Stevenson, John James. "On Laying-out Streets For Convenience Of Traffic And Architectural Effect." Royal Institute of British Architects, Transactions 5, new series (1889):89-104.

Stübben, J. "The Planning and Laying-Out of Streets and Open Spaces VIIth International Congress of Architects, "Summary of Proceedings." Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects 13, 3rd Ser. (25 August 1906):liv-lv.

Stoughton, Arthur A. "The Architectural Side of City Planning." Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference on City Planning (Boston: National Conference on City Planning, 1915):121-128.

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7. Urban Planning and Improvement Programs in Europe

Adams, Thomas. "The British Point of View." Proceedings of the Third National Conference on City Planning. (Boston: National Conference on City Planning, 1911):27-37.

Baxter, Sylvester. "The German Way of Making Better Cities." Atlantic Monthly 104 (July 1909): 72-85.

Brinkmann, F. "Modern City Planning." Municipal Engineering 31 (October 1910):257-260.

Eberstadt, Rudolf. "The Problems of Town Development." Contemporary Review 96 (December 1909):660-667.

Kip, Leonard. "The Building of Our Cities." Hours at Home: a Popular Monthly of Instruction and Recreation11 (July 1870): 206-212.

Nolen, John. "The Basis of German City Planning Procedure: An Example from Düsseldorf." Landscape Architecture 2 (October 1911):52-59.

Shurtleff, Flavel. "The English Town Planning Act of 1909." Proceedings of the Second National Conference on City Planning and the Problems of Congestion, Rochester, New York May 2-4, 1910. Boston: National Conference on City Planning, 1910):178-182.

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8. Planning Principles and Proposals Applied to a Selected City

Anon. "Melbourne As It Is, And As It Ought To Be." Australasian, I (1850): 137-146.

Barnaby, Charles W. "Methods of Laying Out Cities." Cassier's Magazine 38 (September 1910):400-407.

Bridges, William.  Map Of The City Of New York And Island Of Manhattan With Explanatory Remarks And References. New York: William Bridges, 1811.

Cary,  Clarence. "Dalny, a Fiat-City." Scribners Magazine 33 (April 1903):482-493.

Crawford, Andrew Wright. "What Has Been Accomplished in City Planning. Philadelphia." City Planning. Hearing Before the Committee on the District of Columbia United States Senate on the Subject of City Planning. 61st Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Document No. 422 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910):86-88.

Croly, Herbert. "`Civic Improvements': The Case of New York." Architectural Record 21 (May 1907):347-352.

Ely, Richard T.  "Pullman: A Social Study." Harper's Magazine 70 (February 1885): 452-466.

Flagg, Ernest. "The Plan Of New York, And How To Improve It." Scribner's Magazine 36 (August 1904):253-56.

Grimshaw, Robert. "Municipal and State Employees' Residences in Budapest." Journal of the American Institute of Architects (February 1918):67.

Harder, Julius Law. "The City's Plan." Municipal Affairs 2 (March 1898):25-45.

Olmsted, Frederick Law, and James Croes."Preliminary Report of the Landscape Architect and the Civil and Topographical Engineer, upon the Laying out of the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards." New York City Board of the Department of Public Parks, Document No. 72, December 20, 1876.

Osbourn, H. V. B. "Philadelphia: What Are its Needs?" Proceedings of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia17 (February 1900): 24-39.

Tomkins, Calvin, "The Desirability Of Comprehensive Municipal Planning In Advance Of Development." Proceedings of The Municipal Engineers of the City of New York for 1905: 226-237. Paper No. 19, Presented October 25, 1905.

U. S. Senate Committee on the District of Columbia. Report on the Improvement of the Park System of the District of Columbia. Senate Report No. 166, 57th Congress, 1st Session. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902.

Upton, M. G. "The Plan of San Francisco." The Overland Monthly 2 (February 1869):131-136.

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9. Land-Use Regulations

Comey, Arthur C. "Maximum Building Height Regulation." Landscape Architecture 3 (October 1912):19-24.

Haldeman, B. Antrim. "The Control Of Municipal Development By The "Zone System" And Its Application In The United States." Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on City Planning, Boston: National Conference on City Planning, 1912, 173-188.

"Prussian Law of July 2, 1875, Concerning the Laying Out of and Alteration of Streets and Squares in Cities and Country Places." City Planning. Hearing Before the Committee on the District of Columbia United States Senate on the Subject of City Planning. 61st Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Document No. 422 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910):48-50.

Veiller, Lawrence. "Districting By Municipal Regulation". Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on City Planning. New York: National Conference on City Planning, 1916, 147-158. one System" And Its Application In The United States." Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on City Planning, Boston: National Conference on City Planning, 1912, 173-188.

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10. Roles in City Planning of Architects, Engineers, Landscape Architects, etc.

Ackerman, Frederick L. "The Architectural Side of City Planning" Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference on City Planning. (Boston: National Conference on City Planning, 1915):107-128.

Anon. "Metropolitan Improvements."Engineering 90 (23 December 1910):863-64.

Anon. "Town-Planning."Engineering90 (October 14, 1910):539-540.

Lewis, Nelson P. "The Engineer in his Relations to the City Plan." Proceedings of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia 29 (July 1912):198-215.

Olmsted, John C. "The Relation of the City Engineer to Public Parks." Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies 13 (October 1894):590-595 [Excerpt, 594-95]

Sears, Thomas W. "The Functions of the Landscape Architect in Connection with the Improvement of a City." Proceedings of the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia 28 )April 1911):147-158.

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11. Models of Good Planning

Adams, John Coleman, "What a Great City Might Be--A Lesson From the White City." The New England MagazineNew Ser. 14 (March 1896):3-13.

Brush, Edward Hale. "A Garden City for the Man of Moderate Means." The Craftsman 19 (February 1911):445-451.

Zueblin, Charles "`The White City' and After." In Zueblin, A Decade of Civic Development(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1905):59-82.

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12. Urban Planning Policy and Administrative Organization

Adams, Thomas."Community Development in Wartime." Landscape Architecture 8 (April 1918):109-124.

Atterbury, Grosvenor. "Model Towns in America." Scribner's Magazine 52 (July 1912):20-35.

Brunner, Arnold. "Cleveland's Group Plan." Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on City Planning, Cleveland, June 5-7, 1916. (New York, National Conference on City Planning, 1916):14-34.

Howe, Frederick C. "The City as a Socializing Agent: The Physical Basis of the City; the City Plan." American Journal of Sociology 17 (March 1912):590-601.

Magee, William A. "The Organization And Functions Of A City Planning Commission." Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on City Planning...1913 ( Boston: National Conference on City Planning, 1913):73-85.

Nolen, John. "What is Needed in American City Planning?" City Planning. Hearing Before the Committee on the District of Columbia United States Senate on the Subject of City Planning. 61st Congress, 2nd Session, Senate Document No. 422 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910):74-75.

Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr. "A City Planning Program." Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on City Planning (Boston: National Conference on City Planning, 1913):1-16.

Whitten, Robert H. "The Constitution and Powers of a City Planning Authority." Proceedings of the Seventh National Conference on City Planning (Boston: National Conference on City Planning, 1915):135-143.

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13. The Model City Exhibit in 1904 at the St. Louis World's Fair
Several selections of the anthology describe the original concept and plan for a major exhibit to be created at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. It was to be an ambitious (and costly) demonstration of how an ideal city (or at least a representative portion of one) would appear. In the end, the St. Louis model city exhibit consisted of several examples of municipal or civic buildings stretched out along a single street along one edge of the extensive exposition grounds. The readings, however, are valuable as a concise summaries of what was then seen as the desirable way to lay out streets and provide sites for major buildings and uses. This rather limited approach to the perceived elements of city planning would soon be replaced by a much more extensive list of public and private activities that were believed to be proper subjects of public or community guidance.

Anon. ["More on the Model City"].American Architect and Building News 76 (April 19, 1902):17

Anon. "Model City at St. Louis, The."Charities 12 (February 6, 1904):126-27.

Anon. "Municipal Art At The St. Louis Exposition." Municipal Journal and Engineer 11 (October 11, 1901):169.

Anon. ["Municipal Art Exhibit"].American Architect and Building News 75 (March 29, 1902):98

Anon. "Model City At The St. Louis Fair, The." Municipal Journal and Engineer 11 (November 1901):225

Anon. "Plan Of The Model City, The." Current Literature 32 (April 1902):422-23.

Crandall, William S. "The Model City: A Suggestion for the St. Louis Exposition." Municipal Affairs 5 (September 1901):670-674.

Kelsey, Albert. "A Municipal Exhibit." Architectural Review 11 (July 1904):185-188.

Robinson, Charles Mulford. "The Plan of the Model City." The Criterion 3 (March 1902):34-38.

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14. The Australian Federal Capital Competition of 1912.
The international competition for the design of the Australian capital city produced one hundred and thirty-seven entries. Although most of the competitors included with their drawings a description of their proposals, only twenty-one have been located. They include those by the three prize-winners: Walter Burley Griffin, Eliel Saarinen, and Alfred Agache and all but one of the remaining five finalists. For these seven and a few others at least some graphic records of their designs exist. Several other descriptions--two from unidentified competitors--cannot be related to any drawings. Reproductions of and comments about all known designs appear in the compiler's book, Canberra 1912, scheduled for publication November, 1997 by the Melbourne University Press.Note: Permission to reproduce the text and plans of many of the documents listed below has not yet been received. Descriptions now available with full text are indicated by an asterisk, thus: *. The other links to those in the list below will take you only to the title page and compiler's headnotes.

Agache, Alfred. "Suggested Plan For A Federal Capital Of The Commonwealth Of Australia." Typescript in Australian Archives, ACT, Series A762, FC36, [1912].

Anonymous. "American Designs Splendid New Capital for Australia." The New York Times, Sunday, ;June 2, 1912.

Anonymous. "Design of Federal Capital." Typescript in Australian Archives, ACT, Series CP487/6/1, Item 1, [1912].

Anonymous. "Specifications for the Federal City." Typescript in Australian Archives, ACT, Series CP487/6/1, Item 1, [1912].

Anonymous. "Notes on Designs." Typescript in Australian Archives, ACT, Series CP487/6/1, Item 1, [1912].

Caswell, Charles. See Diogenes.

Diogenes [pseud. for Charles Caswell]. Untitled Letter to the Editor. Lithgow Mercury, February 20, 1914.

Gellersteds, Nils. "Commonwealth Of Australia Design For The Lay-out Of The Federal Capital City." Typescript in Australian Archives, ACT, Seriest A762, FC36, [1912].

Gimson, Ernest. "Competition Design for the Federal Capital of Australia." Gimson papers and drawings in the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham, England, [1912].

Griffin, Walter Burley. "Commonwealth of Australia Design for the Lay-Out of the Federal Capital City." Commonwealth of Australia, Report from the Senate Select Committee appointed to Inquire and Report upon the Development of Canberra. September, 1955, Appendix B, "Copy of FederalCapital Design No. 29 by W. B. Griffin. Original Report", [1912].

Griffin, Walter Burley. Untitled Letter to King O'Malley, January 21, 1913. In Federal Capital Administration. Report of the Royal Commission. (1.) Issues Relating to Mr. Griffin. Australia. Parliamentary Papers, 1914-15-16-17, No. 378, ordered to be printed 15 March 1917, Exhibit B8.

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Leckie John D. Untitled typescript in Australian Archives, ACT, Series CP487/6/1, Item 1, [1912].

Macdonald, A. J. "Report on Design Submitted for the Federal Capital City of the Commonwealth of Australian." Cazaly's Contract Register, Supplement, August 13, 1912.

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Maybeck, Bernard, M.H. White, and Professor Charles Gilman Hyde. "Competition Design Of Federal City For Commonwealth Of Australia." Typescript, Archives of the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, [1912].

[Nolen, John] "Australian Federal Capital Plan." National Municipal Review 1 (October 1912): 718-721.

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15. Miscellaneous

[Abercrombie, Patrick?]. "The New Capital City at Delhi." The Town Planning Review 4 (October 1913):185-187.

Bushnell, Horace. "City Plans." In Bushnell, Work and Play: Or Literary Varieties (New York: Charles Scribner, 1864):308-336.

Cleveland, H.W.S. "Landscape Architecture Applied to the Arrangement of Towns..." In Cleveland, Landscape Architecture, As Applied to the Wants of the West: with an Essay on Forest Planting on the Great Plains (Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1873):28-45.

Howard, William Willard, "The Rush to Oklahoma,"  Harper's Weekly 33 (May 18, 1889): 391-394.

Marsh, Benjamin C. "Causes of Congestion of Population." Proceedings of the Second National Conference on City Planning and the Problems of Congestion, Rochester, New York, May 2-4, 1910. Boston: National Conference on City Planning):35-39

Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr. "Lessons from Housing Developments of the United States Housing Corporation." Monthly Labor Review 8 (May 1919):27-38.

"Systematic Study of Town Planning."The Builder 95 (December 12, 1908): 637-38.


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