PLAN 704 - Planning Theory: Land Use Plans

This meticulous reprint of the Plan of Chicago reproduces all 142 plates from the original, 48 of which are in color.

Smith points out the ways the Plan continues to influence debates, even a century after its publication, about how to create a vibrant and habitable urban environment. Richly illustrated and incisively written, his insightful book will be indispensable to our understanding of Chicago, Daniel Burnham, and the emergence of the modern city.

A resumé of the work on the plan of Chicago. Presented by the Executuve committee to and approved by the Chicago Plan commission is session April 9, 1920.

Plans of Chicago , the inaugural publication of the Chicago-based Architects Research Foundation, uses the 1909 Plan as a precedent for reconnecting Chicago's center to outlying suburbs. As in Burnham's Plan, improved transportation and park systems will make Chicago both "the city that works" and a "City Beautiful."

This authoritative and detailed review chronicles the events leading up to the regional plan of New York, 1929 and assesses its significance and influence on subsequent developments of New York.

Author Jane Lyle Diepeveen traces Fair Lawn's history from its origins as a settlement at Sloterdam, a site of the developing Dutch Colonial architecture, to the innovative neighborhoods of Radburn, a cutting-edge planned American garden city.