big plans center books on contemporary landscape design Frederick R. Steiner Consulting Editor George F. Thompson Series Founder and Director Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Harrisonburg, Virginia BBIIGG PPLLAA NN SS The Allure and Folly of Urban Design kenneth kolson The Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore and London frontispiece ©The Johns Hopkins University Press Advertisement showing All rights reserved. Published  the mansions of Shaker Printed in the United States of America on acid-free Heights floating on paper clouds above Terminal  Tower and Public Square, Cleveland, . The Johns Hopkins University Press North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland - www.press.jhu.edu library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Kolson, Kenneth L., – Big plans : the allure and folly of urban design / Kenneth Kolson. p. cm. — (Center books on contemporary landscape design) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.  ---(alk. paper) . Cities and towns. .City planning. .Urban renewal. I. Title. II. Series.    .′—dc - A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. to Jane, Amanda,and Theodore Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever- growing insistency. —daniel burnham contents List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction   A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Trajan’s Forum   The “Hidden Cities” of Ancient North America   Cleveland as City Beautiful   Utopian Visions on the Crabgrass Frontier   Urban Renewal: “The Bugs Are All Out”   The Strange Career of Advocacy Planning   Two Cheers for Sprawl   When Government Dares to Dream   The British Library: From Great Planning Disaster to Almost All Right   With Its “Doors Set Wide to the City”   SimCity and Our Town  Notes  Select Bibliography  Illustration Credits  Index 