Charles Mulford Robinson
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Charles Mulford Robinson (30 April 1869 – 30 December 1917) was a journalist and a writer who became famous as a pioneering urban planning theorist.
Career overview
He was the first Professor for Civic Design at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which was only one of two universities offering courses in urban planning at the time, the other being Harvard.
Robinson wrote The Fair of Spectacle in 1893, an illustrated description of Chicago's World Columbian Exposition, a watershed event for the City Beautiful Movement, and went on to write the first guide to city planning in 1901, titled The Improvement of Towns and Cities.
In 1909, he developed the original plans for the Fort Wayne Park and Boulevard System in Fort Wayne, Indiana.[1]:5–6 He was hired in 1910 to review the city design and planning of St. Joseph, Missouri. Fully half of his report dealt with the need for park space in the city, leading to the design of the National Register of Historic Places–listed St. Joseph Park and Parkway System.[2]
Works
- The Fair of Spectacle: A Report on Chicago's World Columbian Exposition (1893)
- "Improvement in City Live," The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. LXXXIII (1899)[3]
- Rochester Ways (1900)
- The Improvement of Towns and Cities. Or the Practical Basic of Civic Aesthetics (1901)
- Modern Civic Art, or the City Made Beautiful (1903)
- The Call of the City (1908)
- City Planning (1916)
Notes
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References
- San Diego's City Park 1902-1910 From Parsons To Balboa
- PARKS AS ART INFLUENCES: An Interesting Book on the Improvement of Towns and Cities Renaissance of the Spirit of Civic Art is Beginning to Pervade the Municipalities (Review), Samuel Parsons, Jnr.
- Jon A. Peterson. The Birth of City Planning in the United States (Review), Daphne Spain
External links
- Charles Mulford Robinson at Find a Grave
- Works by Charles Mulford Robinson at Hathi Trust
- Works by Charles Mulford Robinson at JSTOR
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- Finding aid to the Charles Mulford Robinson papers at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries
