The Burnham Blog

The Burnham Blog by Patrick T. Reardon

The next Burnham is........you
CMAP and a new sort of region
Six months of thinking and writing about planning
The Burnham Plan as literature
Learning a sense of place in the second grade
Who was Edward P. Brennan? Thank heaven for Edward Brennan.
Who was Edward Bennett? And why has he been overshadowed for a century by Daniel Burnham?
Just another video
Agent provocateurs
Q&A with Carl Smith --- "All this energy"
Q&A with Carl Smith --- "He was in their club"
Q&A with Carl Smith --- "How the world came to be the way it is"
Someday
Our green future
Messiness --- and "a nice place to live"
Learning to plan --- and lead --- for the future
Back in that time --- Chicago in 1948
Planning sacrifice
Discovering their city on a field trip to Millennium Park
Showcasing one community --- and all communities
Planning as a way of life
Walking in the land of cars
Son of the planner
The "hidden architecture" of the Burnham Plan
The other riverwalk --- finding Nature on a walk above the Chicago River
Finding Nature on a walk along the Chicago River
The "White City" musical --- and a different Daniel Burnham
"Our Chicago" --- seeing visions
"Our Chicago"
A "restless pride" in the city
The green infrastructure --- the nurturing (city) forest
The green infrastructure --- in your own backyard
The green infrastructure --- "the next step in Burnham's vision"
The green infrastructure --- the fabric of Nature
The story of the Burnham Plan
The future of Chicago --- and looking ahead to the bicentennial of the Burnham Plan
Daniel Burnham and Jane Addams: What might have been? Or not?
Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs: A question of power
Daniel Burnham and Robert Moses....and the first Mayor Daley
The story of a "useful" life --- the planner as believer
Planners as poets
The Green Legacy --- weaving the region into a single fabric
Q&A with Jerry Adelmann: The past and future of Burnham's green legacy
Q&A with Jerry Adelmann: The green legacy of Daniel Burnham
Burnham as a symbol
A formula for smart home-buying
Planning for happiness: The Bhutan model
You invent the future. Yeah, you!
Inventing the future....in a small group
A model region
A model city?
Taking pains, creating a work of art
Erik Larson's bad book
As society-changing as the Interstate Highway System
Q&A with George Ranney: "A great map of what you want"
Artists look into the future....quizzically
"Make Big Plans" --- On display at 61 libraries and 5 other sites
"Make Big Plans" --- the same broad fabric
What would Daniel Burnham do? Forgetaboutit!
Being Daniel Burnham
"Dear Mayor Daley...."
A complicated conversation
Plain talk from Daniel Burnham.....again.
Q&A with Randy Blankenhorn --- "Not going to get a second chance"
Q&A with Randy Blankenhorn --- "People live regional lives"
Q&A with Randy Blankenhorn --- "As bold as Daniel Burnham"
The Plan of Chicago, republished
Seeing behind the scenes in the writing and selling of the Plan of Chicago
Is this a photo of Daniel Burnham writing the Plan of Chicago?
Planning for the future --- by those who will live it
Art and the utopian curse
Let the nicknaming begin
Present at the creation
Future Leaders of Illinois
Planning music --- "Something's in the air"
Great blue herons instead of semi-trailer trucks
Chicago’s Park
Living inside the Burnham Plan

About this blog

This blog is about history, planning and the future. It’s rooted in the recognition that we live in a world that is created by plans — and by the failure to make plans. [MORE]

About the author

Patrick T. Reardon is a Chicagoan, born and bred. He has been writing about the city, its region and planning issues, mainly in the Chicago Tribune, for nearly 40 years. [MORE]

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About this blog

This blog is about history, planning and the future. It’s rooted in the recognition that we live in a world that is created by plans — and by the failure to make plans. [MORE]

About the author

Patrick T. Reardon is a Chicagoan, born and bred. He has been writing about the city, its region and planning issues, mainly in the Chicago Tribune, for nearly 40 years. [MORE]

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