Chicago metropolis 2020 : the Chicago plan for the twenty-first century

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Label

Chicago metropolis 2020 : the Chicago plan for the twenty-first century

Title remainder

the Chicago plan for the twenty-first century

Statement of responsibility

Elmer W. Johnson ; with a foreword by Donald L. Miller

Title variation

Chicago metropolis twenty twenty

Creator

• Johnson, Elmer W

Contributor

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Commercial Club of Chicago

Subject

• Stadtplanung
• Chicago, Agglomération de (Ill.) -- Conditions économiques -- 21e siècle
• 2000-2099
• Illinois -- Chicago Metropolitan Area
• Area metropolitana de Chicago (Ill.) -- condiciones económicas -- siglo XXI
• Urbanisme -- Illinois | Chicago, Agglomération de
• City planning -- Illinois | Chicago Metropolitan Area
• Economic history
• Chicago <Ill.>
• Prognose
• Stadsplanning
• City planning
• Chicago Metropolitan Area (Ill.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
• Stadtentwicklung
• Urbanismo -- area metropolitana de Chicago

Language

eng

Summary

• "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."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

307.1/216/0977311

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

HT168.C5

LC item number

J64 2001

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography