[PDF] Daniel H Burnham eBook

Author : Kristen Schaffer
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
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Examines the career of nineteenth-century Chicago architect and city planner Daniel Burnham, and features photographs of his creations in Chicago and throughout the United States.

Author : Thomas S. Hines
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226341720

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Daniel Burnham was the man who is largely responsible for the appearance of Chicago today, particularly the lake front parks. With his partner, John W. Root, he designed and built the first skyscrapers and the World's Columbian Exposition.--Publisher description.

Author : Carl Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 37,83 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0226764737

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Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city’s most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier. Carl Smith’s fascinating history reveals the Plan’s central role in shaping the ways people envision the cityscape and urban life itself. Smith’s concise and accessible narrative begins with a survey of Chicago’s stunning rise from a tiny frontier settlement to the nation’s second-largest city. He then offers an illuminating exploration of the Plan’s creation and reveals how it embodies the renowned architect’s belief that cities can and must be remade for the better. The Plan defined the City Beautiful movement and was the first comprehensive attempt to reimagine a major American city. Smith points out the ways the Plan continues to influence debates, even a century after its publication, about how to create a vibrant and habitable urban environment. Richly illustrated and incisively written, his insightful book will be indispensable to our understanding of Chicago, Daniel Burnham, and the emergence of the modern city.

Author : Charles Moore
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 17,96 MB
Release : 2018-10-22
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ISBN : 9780343976545

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