The Burnham Plan of Chicago, a bold plan for the Chicago metropolitan region, was established by Daniel Burnham, Edward Bennett and the Commercial Club of Chicago in 1909. Chicago was struggling with growing as a mature economy center in the United States with its old-fashioned and irrational city plan. Thanks to the Burnham Plan of 1909, one the most iconic city plan in the world, effectively improves the layout and the overall functions of Chicago. Not only benefited businesses, government, and residents back in early 1900, the Burnham Plan of Chicago continually influencing the city of Chicago in a good way. With its railroad's system, street layout, new business district, new city parks and the improvement of the lakefront, The Burnham
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Including redesigning a good amount of urban commercial colossus where two millions of people called home, the scale of this project is huge. Burnham held more than a hundred of meetings with his team and confronted countless critic from the public. The Burnham Document captured Burnham's almost superhuman determination to make his plan come true and his devotion to the city of Chicago. Burnham stated that "The intensity of the last month is very great indeed." (Smith, 5) and he further claimed that "I am for the improvement, heart, and soul." …show more content…
Overall, the plan of the city is somehow centralized with a systematic arrangement of streets that is European standardized (Fig. 1). The civic center is the center of Chicago. The center has a rectangular shaped plaza that connected to a small triangular shaped field. It has to two diagnosed boulevard built toward the Michigan Lake and four diagnosed boulevard built toward the opposite side of the city (Fig. 2). This sophisticated street layout resembles other mature cosmopolitan city's plan, like Paris and Moscow's city plan. (Fig.3) Burnham Plan also relocated the railway terminals and built outer parks. It furthermore Improved the lakefront by creating two harbors and fill some part of
Including redesigning a good amount of urban commercial colossus where two millions of people called home, the scale of this project is huge. Burnham held more than a hundred of meetings with his team and confronted countless critic from the public. The Burnham Document captured Burnham's almost superhuman determination to make his plan come true and his devotion to the city of Chicago. Burnham stated that "The intensity of the last month is very great indeed." (Smith, 5) and he further claimed that "I am for the improvement, heart, and soul." …show more content…
Overall, the plan of the city is somehow centralized with a systematic arrangement of streets that is European standardized (Fig. 1). The civic center is the center of Chicago. The center has a rectangular shaped plaza that connected to a small triangular shaped field. It has to two diagnosed boulevard built toward the Michigan Lake and four diagnosed boulevard built toward the opposite side of the city (Fig. 2). This sophisticated street layout resembles other mature cosmopolitan city's plan, like Paris and Moscow's city plan. (Fig.3) Burnham Plan also relocated the railway terminals and built outer parks. It furthermore Improved the lakefront by creating two harbors and fill some part of