The plan of Chicago : Daniel Burnham and the remaking of the American city
(2007, original release: 2006)
By:
Smith, Carl S
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
DISPLAY/INFLUENCER/LARSON
977.311/SMITH,C
977.311/SMITH,C
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PUBLISHED
Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2007
DESCRIPTION
xvii, 183 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780226764726, 0226764729 :, 0226764729, 9780226764726
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Originally published: 2006
Planning before the plan. -- Antecedents and inspirations. -- The city the planners saw. -- The plan comes together. -- Creating the plan. -- Reading the plan. -- Promotion. -- Implementation. -- Heritage
Arguably the most influential document in the history of American urban planning, Daniel Burnham's 1909 'Plan of Chicago' proposed many of the city's most distinctive features. This text reveals the Plan's central role in shaping the ways people have envisioned the cityscape and urban life itself