What is it about?

Most scholars of city beautification have focused on large cities. This article examines the phenomenon in a much smaller city and argues that early beautification planning efforts shaped subsequent historic preservation and downtown revitalization plans.

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Why is it important?

My article provides much-needed attention to how urban planning practices unfolded in small cities. It also finds greater continuity across major planning paradigms than has been commonly identified.

Perspectives

On a more personal note, as a native of Georgia, I have enjoyed the opportunity to research major urban planning history developments in a way that reframes my own understanding of where I am from.

Mark Souther
Cleveland State University

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This page is a summary of: Making “The Garden City of the South”: Beautification, Preservation, and Downtown Planning in Augusta, Georgia, Journal of Planning History, October 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1538513219873277.
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