The Plan of Chicago

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press . 1909 (reprinted in 1996). ISBN: 9781878271419 Chicago in the collective imaginary: Chicago, the city of the skyscrapers. Chicago, the city of the wind. Chicago, the city of the snowstorm. Chicago and the Michigan lake. Chicago and The Loop. Chicago and its holistic urbanism: American, vertical, rational, interconnected. Chicago en el imaginario colectivo: Chicago, ciudad de los rascacielos. Chicago, ciudad de los vientos. Chicago ciudad de las tormentas de nieve. Chicago y el lago Michigan. Chicago y el Loop. Chicago y su urbanismo holístico: norteamericano, vertical, racional, interconectado. I started to read the book The Plan of Chicago, which was written in 1909 by Daniel Burnham and Edward H. Bennet as part of a new Urban Project, after a short visit to Chicago. The book was re-edited by Princeton Architectural Press in 1996 within the series Classic Reprint . I already knew the connection between the urban plan and its materialization could be intriguing and disappointing. The maximalist positions of the author of the project stumbled into the built environment. At the same time, it was surprising and comforting other situations that the urban designer could not imagine or control. They enriched the original urban model. Chicago is a city with a remarkable urban space where urbanism, architecture, and cultural model work together. The city fluctuates between these two situations: an urban plan that was not fully implemented and a new town that was born within it. Tras visitar Chicago recientemente, me sumerjo en la lectura del libro The Plan of Chicago , escrito Daniel Burnham y Edward H. Bennett en 1909 como parte de un nuevo proyecto urbanístico, y reeditado por Princeton Architectural Press en 1996 dentro de la serie de Classic Reprint.