The Burnham Plan is a popular name for the 1909 Plan of Chicago coauthored by Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennett and published in 1909. It recommended an integrated series of projects including new and widened streets, parks, new railroad and harbor facilities, and civic buildings. Though only portions of the plan were realized, the document reshaped Chicago's central area and was an important influence on the new field of city planning.
Title page of 1st edition
Plan of central Chicago
View, looking west, of the proposed Civic Center
Plan of a park
Daniel Hudson Burnham was an American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the Beaux-Arts movement, he may have been "the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ever produced."
Burnham's childhood home in Henderson, New York
The Montauk Building, c.1886
Masonic Temple Building in Chicago
Court of Honor and Grand Basin — World's Columbian Exposition