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Daniel H. Burnham, architect, planner of cities

Moore, Charles, 1855-1942, Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 · 1921 · Boston : Houghton Mifflin · 51 pictures

Charles Moore's 1921 biography of Chicago architect and city planner Daniel H. Burnham, published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin for an audience of architects, civic reformers, and readers of the City Beautiful movement. Plates mix halftone photographs of European and American views with pen-and-ink bird's-eye perspectives and tinted renderings of proposed boulevards, waterfronts, and civic centers, offering designers aerial city panoramas, hatched line drawing of massed buildings, and soft washed plan illustrations.

Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 · City planning

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