The City Beautiful Movement is an influential but often forgotten chapter in city planning. Find out how to movement affected the Steel City, especially by giving birth to the neighborhood of Oakland.

Cool old Pittsburgh Maps: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/inde....

Olmsted Plan: https://historicpittsburgh.org/island...

The Pittsburgh Survey: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL71113...

More about CMU's campus design: https://www.slideserve.com/ciro/act-o...

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