Daniel H. Burnham, Architect, Planner of Cities Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...Orderliness is one of the best investments a city can make, but the appeal of the Chicago Plan is by no means entirely a commercial appeal. It is a human appeal, a moral appeal, an appeal to make Chicago better, not for the money that is in it, but for the sake of the higher mental, moral, and physical people that a perfectly arranged city will produce. The Plan of Chicago is not a panacea for all the civic ills that beset our city. It aims simply at the physical development of Chicago for the good of not one class of people or of one section of the city, but for the good of all Chicagoans--for the good of all Chicago. No other city of modern times has been given a plan so comprehensive--one that proposes so many economic, hygienic, sociological, commercial, and humanitarian benefits--and one so thoroughly calculated to meet the needs of a vast and growing populace. The ten years' work of the Chicago Plan Commission upon the Plan has been an effort to assist Chicago to fulfil its ambition to be the best, most orderly, healthful, convenient, and attractive city in America. 1 CHAPTER XXIV THE COMMISSION OF FINE ARTS--THE LONDON CITY-PLANNING CONFERENCE 1910 THEODORE ROOSEVELT in his "Autobiography" says: "I also appointed a Fine Arts Council, an unpaid body of the best architects, painters, and sculptors in the country, to advise the Government as to the erection and decoration of all new buildings. The 'pork-barrel' Senators and Congressmen felt for this body an instinctive, and perhaps from their standpoint a natural, hostility; and my successor a couple of months after taking office revoked the appointment and disbanded the Council." This statement, in so far as it relates to President Taft, is ambiguous. In the Sundry Civil Act of March 4, ...