You're invited (Free) as UAA Opens Its Burnham Panels

Be there as world experts consider Burnham's Chicago and its future during the first-ever Chicago meeting of the international Urban Affairs Association (UAA) on March 5 and 6. The UAA is for the first time allowing the public free of charge to join its 800 international scholars for nine Burnham Centennial panels at the Renaissance Chicago Hotel, downtown at the southwest corner of State Street and Wacker Drive.

There is no need to RSVP, just show up at any or all of the Burnham panels listed below.

Convener: Adele Simmons (Vice Chair Burnham Plan Centennial Committee, Senior Executive and Vice Chair of Chicago Metropolis 2020)

• Scott Bernstein (President, Center for Neighborhood Technology)
• Carl Abbott (Professor, Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University)
• Carl Smith (Franklyn Bliss Snyder Professor of English and American Studies, Northwestern University)

Assessing the State of Urban Theory: The View from Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago (Chicago Special Track Session)

Moderator: Dennis Judd (University of Illinois at Chicago)

• "Informal City": The Contested Conditions of Everyday Life in Belfast, Chicago, and Kolkata; David Perry (University of Illinois at Chicago), Frank Gaffikin (University of Ulster), Ratoola Kundu (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• The LA School and Politics of Noir: Bringing the State Back In; Steve Erie (University of California, San Diego), Scott McKenzie (University of California, San Diego)
• The New Chicago School of Urbanism and the New Daley Machine; Dick Simpson (University of Illinois at Chicago), Tom Kelly (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Moderator: John A. Shuler (University of Illinois at Chicago)

• John A. Shuler (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Charles J. Hoch (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Joseph P. Schwieterman (DePaul University)

Moderator: Rosalind Greenstein (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)

• Wim Wiewel (Portland State University)
• Terry Mazany (Chicago Community Trust)
• Eugenie Birch (University of Pennsylvania)

Moderators: Dennis R. Judd (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Costas Spirou (National-Louis University in Chicago)

• Dennis R. Judd (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Costas Spirou (National-Louis University in Chicago)
• Ed Uhlir (Director of Planning, Architecture, and Landscape--Millennium Park)
• Perry R. Duis (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Moderator: Amy Khare (University of Chicago)

• Social Norms and Social Control: Uses and Expectations of Space and Place in Mixed-Income Communities; Robert Chaskin (University of Chicago), Mark Joseph (Case Western Reserve University)
• The Consequences of Diversity: Race and Class Cleavages in Mixed-Income Neighborhoods; Laura Tach (Harvard University)
• The Contours of Mixed-Income Living in the Music City; James Fraser (Vanderbilt University), Karl Jones (Vanderbilt University), Josh Bazuin (Vanderbilt University)
• Longer-Term Outcomes in a Mixed-Income Development: Evidence from Seattle; Rachel Garshick Kleit (University of Washington)

Moderator: Larry Bennett (DePaul University)

• Allert Brown-Gort (University of Notre Dame)
• Roberta Garner (DePaul University)
• John Koval (University of Notre Dame)
• Mary Pattillo (Northwestern University)
• Scott Waguespack (Alderman-32nd Ward, City of Chicago)

Moderator: Mark Joseph (Case Western Reserve University)

• Andy Geer (Executive Director, Heartland Housing, Inc.)
• Danielle Walters (Executive Director, Stateway Community Partners)
• Daisy Black (Director of Property Management, The Community Builders, Inc.)
• Robin Snyderman (Vice President of Community Development, Metropolitan Planning Council)

Moderator: Rachel Weber (University of Illinois at Chicago)

• Alejandra Ibanez (Pilsen Alliance)
• David Omotoso Stovall (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• Jay Travis (Kenwood Oakland Community Organization)
• Charity Tolliver (Southside Together Organizing for Power)
• Winifred Curran (DePaul University)

The March edition of the New Yorker magazine acknowledges the 100th anniversary of the Plan of Chicago with an article by Paul Goldberger. The piece quotes Frank Lloyd Wright calling Chicago the only American city to have transformed its waterfront into a public asset, and giving Burnham credit for the bold vision acknowledged by the magazine's tip of the hat. [MORE]

The Burnham Plan Centennial Committee and its founding sponsors The Chicago Community Trust and the Elizabeth Morse Trust & Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust are happy to post online Dennis McClendon's beautiful and insightful 20-page booklet "The Plan of Chicago: A Regional Legacy." By clicking on the following link, adults and children can quickly develop an appreciation for how the 1909 Plan of Chicago transformed the Chicago metropolitan region. [MORE]

An energized, smart and enthusiastic network of Burnham proportions has come together. A thousand points of vision are being networked together by hundreds of Burnham Plan Centennial partner organization throughout our three-state region. Centennial central staff is daily more amazed and excited by the creative thinking from an enormously diverse community engaged in building a great future. The Chicago Loop Alliance is preparing to make a major Burnham statement on State Street in March. And the Chicago Architectural Foundation has a broad spectrum of Burnham programs throughout the year.