1. Improvement in city life. III. Aesthetic progress;Robinson;Atlantic Monthly,1899
2. E. Rostlund, Twentieth century magic, in: P. Wagner and M. Mikesell (Eds), Readings in Cultural Geography, Chicago, 1962, 52.
3. The city beautiful movement: forgotten origins and lost meanings;Peterson;Journal of Urban History,1976
4. T.J. Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture 1880???1920, New York, 1981; W. Westfall, Two Worlds: The Protestant Culture of Nineteenth Century Ontario, Montreal and Kingston, 1989; W. Wilson, The City Beautiful Movement, Baltimore and London, 1989; C. Reed (Ed.), Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in Modern Art and Architecture, London and New York, 1996; J. Reps, Urban Planning, 1794???1918: An International Anthology of Articles, Conference Papers, and Reports (n.d.), On-line, Available: http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/homepage.htm;
5. P.G. Mackintosh, Imagination and the modern city: reform and the urban geography of Toronto 1890???1929, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Kingston, 2001; C.M. Robinson, The Improvement of Towns and Cities or the Practical Basis of Civic Aesthetics, New York, 1901 and Modern Civic Art or the City Made Beautiful, 4th edition, New York, 1970 [1903] are good primary sources for city beautification ideas. Reps (n.d) is an impressively comprehensive source for primary urban reform documents as they pertain not only to art and cities but city planning in general.