02950cam a22003613u 4500 76669 UtSlPG 20260610134756.0 m cr n 260607r20251908utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 NA Commercial Club of Chicago Plan of Chicago Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnham_Plan_of_Chicago Release date is 2025-08-11 A Marshall, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Plan of Chicago" by Commercial Club of Chicago, Bennett, and Burnham is an urban planning report written in the early 20th century. It presents a comprehensive civic vision to guide Chicago’s growth by restructuring transportation and rail terminals, redesigning streets and boulevards, expanding parks and the lakefront, and creating a monumental civic center to improve health, efficiency, and beauty. Drawing on lessons from the World’s Columbian Exposition and international precedents, it seeks to turn rapid expansion into coordinated development. The opening of the work explains the surge toward city life, the high costs of congestion, and the economy of a unified plan, tracing the project’s origins to the 1893 Exposition and early lakefront proposals. It recounts how the Commercial Club commissioned the effort, formed committees, hosted frequent reviews, and set goals for commerce, transportation, recreation, and dignified public groupings within an expandable framework. The next section surveys global precedents from Babylon, Egypt, Athens, and Rome through Paris under Louis XIV, Napoleon, and Haussmann, modern German and British reforms, and American efforts in Washington, Cleveland, Boston, St. Louis, San Francisco, and the Philippine cities of Manila and Baguio. It then turns to Chicago’s role as the Middle West’s metropolis, its historical foundations and explosive growth, and the pressing need to channel that growth into convenience, health, and civic coherence. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Chicago: The Commercial Club, 1908 City planning -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century Bennett, Edward H. (Edward Herbert), 1874-1954 Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 Moore, Charles, 1855-1942 https://archive.org/details/planofchicago00burnuoft/page/n3/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76669 117394 117394