Burnham of Chicago: Architect and Planner, Second Edition - Softcover

Hines, Thomas S.; Harris, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226341720 ISBN 13: 9780226341729

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2008

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2009 marks the centennial of the influential Plan of Chicago. Designed by Daniel H. Burnham, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, the forward-thinking plan proposed many of the city’s most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier. As a result, by the time he died in 1912, Burnham was one of the most famous architects in America as well as an internationally renowned city planner. Thomas S. Hines’s book is at once both a biography of Burnham and a vivid portrait of the birth and growth of an American city. In commemoration of the historic anniversary of Burnham’s Plan, this edition of Burnham of Chicago includes a new introduction by American history scholar, Neil Harris.

“Indeed, the book as a whole is a model of the balanced portrait, sure of Burnham’s importance but always conscious of his failings.”—Paul Goldberger, New York Times Book Review

“In every sense this is the definitive biography.”—Harry Weese, Chicago Tribune

“Professor Hines has written what may prove to be an epoch-making book in the study of American civilization.”—Reyner Banham, Times Literary Supplement

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Thomas S. Hines is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. His other books include Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture and William Faulkner and the Tangible Past: The Architecture of Yoknapatawpha.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226341720
• ISBN 13: 9780226341729
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 473
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