This documentary film, making its world premiere at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, explores the fascinating life and complex legacy of architect and city planner Daniel Hudson Burnham and how his vision to organize the chaos of the nineteenth century America shaped the nation's towns and cities for generations.
Burnham built some of the earliest skyscrapers, directed construction of the 1893 Columbian Exposition that inspired the City Beautiful Movement and created plans for San Francisco, Washington DC, Chicago, Cleveland and Manila, all before the urban planning profession existed.
His work sought to reconcile things often thought opposite: the practical and the ideal, business and art, and capitalism and democracy. At the center of it all was the idea of a vibrant urban community. A timely, intriguing story in the American experience, Make No Little Plans explores Burnham's career and complex legacy as public debate continues today about how and for whom cities are planned.
This program was offered on these dates:
Wednesday, September 2, 2009 7:30pm to 9:00pm
Archimedia Workshop
Cost: Free and open to the Public. RSVP not required.
Website: http://www.thearchimediaworkshop.org
Location:
Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park
Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street
Chicago, IL
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