Chicago Metropolis 2020
Subtitle: The Chicago Plan for the Twenty-First Century
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: June 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780226402000
Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Cultural studies; Urban & municipal planning; Architecture; Politics / Current Events; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Reference; Political Science / Reference; General; 21st century; Chicago Metropolitan Area; Chicago Metropolitan Area (Ill; Chicago Metropolitan Area (Ill.); City planning; Economic conditions; Illinois
Description: "In the late nineteenth century, Chicago was a commercial colossus, a city growing more quickly than New York, flooded with industrial money and brassy confidence but ravaged by great income disparities, dangerously lax health standards, and labor upheavals. For Chicago to become the city it could be, civic leaders recognized the need for order and planning, both to solve Chicago's problems and to prepare it for a prosperous future.

The result was architect Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago, a model of urban planning, aesthetic sophistication, and technical achievement.".

"Nearly a century later, Chicago, like all cities, faces similar dilemmas: how to reconcile privatism with public control, growth with restraint, wealth with poverty, and beauty with industry. And as it did a hundred years ago with the Burnham Plan, the Commerical Club has sponsored a wholly contemporary plan for the city's future development. Written by Elmer W.

Johnson, a lawyer and civic leader, Chicago Metropolis 2020 is a guide for those in all spheres of influence who are working to make cities economically and socially vigorous while addressing the greatest problems modern metropolises face.

While Burnham's plan primarily addressed architecture and spatial planning, Chicago Metropolis 2020 speaks to all facets of urban life, from public education to suburban sprawl, from transportation to social and economic segregation, with the expressed goal of continuing Chicago's tradition of renewal and foresight."--BOOK JACKET.