{"id":1003,"date":"2011-02-24T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T06:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info-libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2023-07-07T18:34:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T18:34:56","slug":"1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/24\/1909\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 49 &#8211; 1909: Plan of Chicago:  Prepared under the Direction of the Commercial Club During the Years MCMVI, MCMVII, and MCMVIII by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Chicago, 1909<a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/24\/1909\/1909-ill5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1007\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1007 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-ill5-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-ill5-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-ill5-1024x804.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-ill5-768x603.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-ill5-1536x1206.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-ill5-624x490.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-ill5.jpg 1670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After successfully managing the construction of the 1893 Chicago World\u2019s Fair, Daniel Burnham made a name for himself as one of the premier city planners in the United States. His <em>Plan of Chicago<\/em>, developed with Edward H. Bennett, remains a landmark in the field. The <em>Plan <\/em>proposes a number of extraordinary ideas, some of which have been forgotten, others that have left their mark on the Chicago cityscape. Few tourists, for example, fail to visit Navy Pier. But did you know that this popular attraction is just one of a pair of piers that Burnham and Bennett proposed to flank the Chicago harbor? Or that the vast Chicago shoreline, now reserved for public use, was the brainchild of these two forward-thinking planners?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/24\/1909\/1909-inscription\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1005\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1005 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-inscription-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-inscription-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-inscription-1024x883.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-inscription-768x662.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-inscription-624x538.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-inscription.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Many of the 1,650 copies originally published wound up in the hands of prominent planners and architects. MIT\u2019s copy is no exception: Edward Pennell Brooks, founding dean of the Institute\u2019s Sloan School of Management, has inscribed this copy to Pietro Belluschi, former dean of MIT\u2019s School of Architecture and Planning, and noted architect in his own right (he is most famous, perhaps, for his hand in designing the MetLife building in Manhattan).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/24\/1909\/1909-ill2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1006\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1006 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-ill2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/24\/1909\/1909-cover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1008\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1008 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-cover-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/24\/1909\/1909-ill9\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1009\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1009 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-ill9-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/24\/1909\/1909-ill10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1012\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1012 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-ill10-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/24\/1909\/1909-text\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1013\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1013 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-text-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/02\/24\/1909\/1909-title\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1014\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1014 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/1909-title-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/jp08pj\/alma990004309510106761\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find it in the library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Chicago, 1909 After successfully managing the construction of the 1893 Chicago World\u2019s Fair, Daniel Burnham made a name for himself as one of the premier city planners in the United States. His Plan of Chicago, developed with Edward H. Bennett, remains a landmark in the field. The Plan proposes a number of extraordinary ideas, some of which have been forgotten, others that have left their mark on the Chicago cityscape. Few tourists, for example, fail to visit Navy Pier. But did you know that this popular attraction is just one of a pair of piers that Burnham and Bennett [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4260,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions\/4260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}