Sarah Whiting - What Happened to the Big City Plan?

Sarah Whiting gave a great common lecture. Some highlights inlcuded

• McMillan Commission Plan for Washington
• The 1909 Burnham Plan for Chicago (see above)
• Chicago's South Central Plan which included Mies' and Hilbsy's IIT (but now has been touched by Koolhaas)

Although I had driven on Wacker, I had never before seen Wacker's Manual of the Plan for Chicago, an 8th grade primer (now completely online) that instilled a new generation of Chicagoans with an expectation of civic grandeur and responsibility.