Question

Recall what our text says about the City Beautiful movement and the Columbian Exposition of 1893. Go deeper however: research the movement and the Exposition. Find two sites that you feel provide good information on them and give us links to those sites and describe what they offer -- what you found interesting. Be specific, not general.

Answer 1

Answer:

Architectural aesthetics and Urban planning in America

Explanation:

City Beautiful Movement was a great reform in urban planning and modern architecture. The shapelessness of American cities emerged into more developed and advanced with an extraordinary speed between 1860 and 1900. It promoted beauty to create moral and civic virtue.

Columbian Exposition 1893, Chicago, celebrated the 400th year anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in America.

Both the movement and Columbian Exposition advocated the philosophy of beauty and the value of aesthetics required to promote harmonious social order.

Two websites:

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

https://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/61.html

Both these websites give a detailed description of two major historic event in America. It provides sufficient information about the events and their influence on each other.