Main entry:

Johnson, Elmer W.

Title & Author:

Chicago metropolis 2020 : the Chicago plan for the twenty-first century / Elmer W. Johnson ; with a foreword by Donald L. Miller.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2001.

Description:

xix, 188 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 31 cm

Notes:
"A project of the Commercial Club of Chicago in association with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index.
Foreword / by Donald L. Miller -- Introduction -- pt. 1: Goals, challenges, and guiding principles. Public education and child care ; Transportation ; Land use and housing ; Governance and taxation ; Economic well-being -- pt. 2: Recommendations. Investing in children ; Enhancing the region's competitive vigor ; Governing the region ; Addressing the problems of race and poverty ; Enriching the quality of life: mobility, land use, and the environment -- Outreach and implementation: Chicago metropolis 2020 and the future of the plan -- Appendix A: The story of the Plan of 1909 -- Appendix B: Understanding sprawl and segregation -- Appendix C: Metropolis 2020 Project Committees.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"In the late nineteenth century, Chicago was a commercial colossus, a city growing more quickly than New York, flooded with industrial money and brassy confidence but ravaged by great income disparities, dangerously lax health standards, and labor upheavals. For Chicago to become the city it could be, civic leaders recognized the need for order and planning, both to solve Chicago's problems and to prepare it for a prosperous future. The result was architect Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago, a model of urban planning, aesthetic sophistication, and technical achievement."
"Nearly a century later, Chicago, like all cities, faces similar dilemmas: how to reconcile privatism with public control, growth with restraint, wealth with poverty, and beauty with industry. And as it did a hundred years ago with the Burnham Plan, the Commercial Club has sponsored a wholly contemporary plan for the city's future development. Written by Elmer W. Johnson, a lawyer and civic leader, Chicago Metropolis 2020 is a guide for those in all spheres of influence who are working to make cities economically and socially vigorous while addressing the greatest problems modern metropolises face.
While Burnham's plan primarily addressed architecture and spatial planning, Chicago Metropolis 2020 speaks to all facets of urban life, from public education to suburban sprawl, from transportation to social and economic segregation, with the expressed goal of continuing Chicago's tradition of renewal and foresight."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226402002 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780226402000 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning Illinois Chicago Metropolitan Area.
Urbanisme Illinois Chicago, Agglomération de.
City planning
Economic history
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtplanung
Prognose
Stadsplanning.
Chicago Metropolitan Area (Ill.) Economic conditions 21st century.
Chicago, Agglomération de (Ill.) Conditions économiques 21e siècle.
Illinois Chicago Metropolitan Area
Chicago, Ill.

Form/genre:

Plans (maps)

Added entries:

Miller, Donald L., 1944-
Commercial Club of Chicago.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Chicago metropolis twenty twenty

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216823
Call No.: HT168.C5 J6 2001
Status: Available