Plan of Chicago prepared under the direction of the Commercial club during the years 1906, 1907, and 1908 (1909)
Commercial club of Chicago. [from old catalog], Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912, Bennett, Edward H. [from old catalog], Moore, Charles, 1855-1942, ed · Chicago, The Commercial club · leaf 47
the constant increase in popula-tion. Everywhere throughout Europe the design of the cosmopolitan city as planned by thearchitects of Louis XIV. became the model; everywhere the work of Haussmann in openingcongested regions of old cities by means of straight thoroughfares found imitators. Vienna… … XXI. LONDON. PLAN OF ALD-\VyCH AND KINGSWAY CON-NECTING HOLBORN AND THESTRAND its Ringstrasse followed the example of Paris as expressed in theboulevards of Colbert; in each case the old fortifications werecleared away to make park-like thoroughfares. The heart of oldLondon was transformed by…
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