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Make No Little Plans - Daniel Burnham and the American City [66] is the first feature-length documentary film about noted architect and urban planner Daniel Hudson Burnham, produced by the Archimedia Workshop. National distribution in 2009 coincided with the centennial celebration of Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett's 1909 Plan of Chicago.
1859 Ildefons Cerdà – planner of the Eixample district of Barcelona; 1862 James Hobrecht – Hobrecht-Plan for Berlin; c. 1880 Solon Spencer Beman and George Pullman – Pullman, Chicago; 1880 Pedro Benoit – La Plata, Argentina; 1882 Arturo Soria y Mata – the Ciudad Lineal, Madrid; 1898 Ebenezer Howard – Garden city movement
Bennett was born in Bristol, England on May 12, 1874, [1] and later moved to San Francisco with his family. [2] While an employee of Robert White, he was encouraged by famous architect Bernard Maybeck to pursue his education in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts, [2] [3] which he attended from 1895 to 1902 thanks to the generosity of Phoebe Apperson Hearst.
The city renovated, widened, and extended Michigan Avenue, widened Roosevelt Road, and created Wacker Drive and Ida B. Wells Drive (formerly Congress Parkway). With the growth in automobile usage after World War I, Chicago planners began to drastically alter or step away from Burnham's proposals for the street system. [1]
In 2023, city planners, along with state and city transportation officials, local aldermen, area businesses and a consultant team led by site design group ltd., a Chicago-based landscape architect ...
The first large-scale elaboration of the City Beautiful occurred in Chicago at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.The planning of the exposition was directed by architect Daniel Burnham, who hired architects from the eastern United States, as well as the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, to build large-scale Beaux-Arts monuments that were vaguely classical with uniform cornice height.
The Chicago School of Architecture: A history of commercial and public buildings in the Chicago area 1875–1925. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1964. ISBN 978-0-226-11455-2; Merwood-Salisbury, Joanna. Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-226-52078-0
The buildings and architecture of Chicago reflect the city's history and multicultural heritage, featuring prominent buildings in a variety of styles. Most structures downtown were destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 (an exception being the Water Tower ).