Urban Planning in Berlin, London, Paris and Chicago 1910 and 2010

1910 #6 — Metropolitan Mobility Chicago p. 1
The design of the Plan of Chicago was
based on contemporary forecasts of population
growth from two to thirteen million
people over 30 years. The developed area
of the region around the southern part
of Lake Michigan had to grow in size
Daniel H. Burnham / Edward H. Bennett
Plan of Chicago
Plan of the outer, concentric
and radial highways
accordingly. A system made of radial and
concentric streets, the longest with a
radius of 90 km, were to provide a future
structure, interconnecting suburbs and
linking them back to the centre.
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Daniel H. Burnham,
Edward H. Bennett
Plan of Chicago, plan of
the outer, concentric and
radial highways, 1909
Courtesy: Chicago History
Museum