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The Plan of Chicago was designed by Daniel Burnham, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, the plan proposed many of the city's most distinctive features. This book is at once both a biography of Burnham and a portrait of the birth and growth of an American city.

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"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"

Burnham of Chicago

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    A Paperback / softback by Thomas S. Hines, Neil Harris

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/2008
      ISBN13: 9780226341729, 978-0226341729
      ISBN10: 0226341720
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      Book Synopsis
      The Plan of Chicago was designed by Daniel Burnham, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, the plan proposed many of the city's most distinctive features. This book is at once both a biography of Burnham and a portrait of the birth and growth of an American city.

      Trade Review
      "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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