Modern civic art; or, The city made beautiful (1918)
Robinson, Charles Mulford, 1869-1917 · New York, Putnam · leaf 422
he air. From this point ofview the park, it is suggested, serves to the moderncrowded industrial city such a spiritual purpose asthe architectural grandeur and loveliness of a cathe-dral served to the comparatively rural population ofthe Middle Ages. The park is the cathedral of themodern city. The… … fl>arfc Development 345 should be considered as trustees of scenery. Forsome of the parks of cities, indeed whenever a tracthas been selected especially on account of its strik-ing beauty, grandeur, or picturesqueness, they areprimarily this. And so there enters into civic art,into the art even…
Art, Municipal
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