About this project
More than a century after the 1909 publication of Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett’s Plan of Chicago, a group of Notre Dame classical humanist architects and urban designers is re-engaging their work. The intent is twofold: 1) to critique today’s hyper-modern city generally, but foremost 2) to envision metropolitan Chicago 100 years forward as a great urban-agrarian entity imagined as part of a longer and larger classical humanist urban tradition we share with Daniel Burnham, Pierre L’Enfant, and their own forebears back to Augustine, Vitruvius, and Aristotle. The project is called:
After Burnham: Our Lady's Plan of Chicago 2109.