Daniel Burnham

Bolder Plans, Bigger Dreams

This year is the centennial of Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago, a landmark in the world of urban planning. Martha Frish has had the pleasure of looking through Burnham's handwritten documents and shares some of his wisdom that didn't make it into the final plan.

12 November 2009 - 9:54am

The Burnham Plan Was Also the Bennett Plan

The 1909 Plan of Chicago is widely credited to Daniel Burnham. But Burnham's right-hand-man, Edward Bennett not only played a big role in writing the plan, he also helped put it into action.

7 July 2009 - 11:00am

Chicago Tribune

Why Did Burnham's Chicago Plan Work?

A thoughtful look at what made Daniel Burnham's plan for the City of Chicago so successful.

20 April 2009 - 5:00am

Urbanophile

Burnham Memorial Planned, But Designs Are Secret

A memorial to famed planner Daniel Burnham will be built on the lakefront in Chicago, and three finalists were recently chosen to design it. The designs haven't been made public yet, to the frustration of some locals.

6 April 2009 - 12:00pm

Chicago Tribune

'No Small Plans'? Burnham Never Said It

That's just one of the interesting tidbits in this celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Plan of Chicago and Daniel Burnham in The New Yorker.

4 March 2009 - 2:00pm

The New Yorker

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Designing a Memorial Befitting Burnham

The author of this article expresses their concern for a potential Daniel Burnham memorial that does little to represent his ideas--or good planning.

4 March 2009 - 8:00am

Chicago Tribune

Josh Stephens

Voices In The (Urban) Wilderness

Wed, 02/04/2009 - 18:30

Anyone who has picked up a greeting card, coffee mug, or calendar in the past 100 years or so can recognize the sentiments of any number of great American environmentalists: Whitman and his yawp, Thoreau and his deliberateness, Frost and his serene decisiveness. We know the exhortations of Carson, Leopold, Emerson, and Abbey. John Muir, John McPhee, and Barry Lopez are known to have taken a few strolls through the chestnuts.

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Daniel Burnham and the National Mall

One of Chicago architect Daniel Burnham's lesser-known achievements was a rethinking of the National Mall, bringing ideas- like a reflecting pool- from his designs for the Columbian Exhibition of 1893.

20 January 2009 - 1:00pm

Chicago Tribune

Planners Look Back as Another Burnham Centennial Approaches

Besides Chicago, another Daniel Burnham-planned city is turning 100. Baguio City in the Philippines will turn 100 in 2009, and local planners are trying to apply urban reform elements from Burnham's original plan in time for the celebration.

15 November 2008 - 9:00am

Philippine Daily Inquirer

Make No Little Plans, 100 Years Later

As the 100-year anniversary of the writing of the Burnham Plan for Chicago approaches, the city and its suburbs are thinking big about how to improve the city.

16 September 2008 - 7:00am

Chicago Tribune