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The five announcements are among 21 Green Legacy Projects identified by the Burnham Plan Centennial Committee and Openlands as closing gaps in the region's \"green infrastructure.\" All held events or made significant progress during the Burnham Centennial year. \"We commend the Burnham Plan Centennial and Openlands for the significant progress they have made to advance [Daniel Burnham]'s vision for improving the quality of life for Chicago-area residents,\" said Steve Solomon, president of the Exelon Foundation, environmental sponsor of the Burnham Plan Centennial. \"The Green Legacy projects support the Exelon Foundation's goals of encouraging respect for the environment and strengthening the social and economic fabric of the communities Exelon's operating companies serve.\" The year 2009 is the 100th anniversary of the publication of Daniel Burnham's and Edward Bennett's \"Plan of Chicago,\" one of the world's first and most visible comprehensive regional plans. Burnham's admonition to \"make no little plans\" has been a guiding principle for Chicago and for generations of planners and builders in cities around the globe. One hundred years later, the Burnham Plan still inspires the region to be visionary, think regionally, recognize the value of beauty and conservation, and act deliberately to turn our plans into reality for the benefit of all the people of the region.

A leading [Daniel H. Burnham] scholar, [Kristen Schaffer] is author of \"Daniel H. Burnham: Visionary Architect.\" While reviewing Burnham's handwritten draft of the Plan of Chicagoin the Art Institute's Ryerson Library, Schaffer was struck by the passages that were left out of the published Plan. The public is invited to hear Schaffer's presentation of \"Finding Burnham in the Archives: Spiritual Revelations and the Plan of Chicago\" on Thursday, October 8 at 12 pm noon in S.R. Crown Hall, at IIT's College of Architecture, 3360 S. State St., Chicago, sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology's College of Architecture; and on Sunday, October 11 at 3 pm in Fisk Hall, 1845 Sheridan Road, Evanston, sponsored by Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, The Program in American Studies. Both lectures are free to the public, and are co-sponsored by the Swedenborg Library of Chicago.

Gilles de Navacelle finds it a bit unusual to speak for his great uncle, a man who died six years before he was born. Yet de Navacelle, who has lived in Lincoln Park since 1998, is so convinced Baron de Coubertin would like the idea of an Olympics in Chicago he has offered the family's support to help bring the 2016 Summer Games to the city. If Chicago were to become U.S. candidate for 2016, de Navacelle and his uncle, Geoffroy de Navacelle, who knew de Coubertin, would like the city's Olympic bid committee to avail itself of archives at a family home in Normandy and to use the facilities at the Chateau de Coubertin in the Paris suburbs as an occasional European base of operations. [De Coubertin] thought Chicago's Columbian Exposition, with grounds and buildings planned and designed by [Daniel Burnham], had the effect of exposing visitors to their own country. De Navacelle thinks the Olympics would have the equally significant effect of exposing the world to Chicago as the quintessential modern American city.

This spring, residents successfully funded a project to replace the entire stretch of asphalt with a large pollinatorfriendly garden. There's even talk of removing the fence. The ripple effect: People from nearby streets have started organizing their own interventions, like a pollinator garden at the neighbourhood daycare and moss graffiti in an alleyway. As resident Anjum Chagpar said, \"Inspiration breeds inspiration. Simple, fun interventions are contagious.\" Replacing pavement with a pollinator garden on one small street won't solve the vast issues our communities face, but little spaces perhaps hold the greatest potential. To make our cities truly green, we must bring nature to the oft-neglected bits between parks and existing green areas. Streets and sidewalks alone account for about 80 per cent of a city's public space. Private spaces like yards, rooftops and balconies cover more than half the urban landscape. Stretching our visions of urban green space to include these allows us to reimagine the city as a vibrant green mosaic. So it's no surprise that a growing number of design competitions and events are celebrating urban interventions, from PARK(ing) Day, which highlights the transformation of parking spots into temporary public spaces in 35 countries, to 100-in-1 Day, which will be held this year on June 7 in Toronto, Halifax and Vancouver to celebrate citizen-led initiatives that \"raise awareness of urban and social issues, inspire ideas, and motivate leaders to consider new approaches to old problems.\"

This spring, residents successfully funded a project to replace the entire stretch of asphalt with a large pollinator-friendly garden. There's even talk of removing the fence. The ripple effect: People from nearby streets have started organizing their own interventions, like a pollinator garden at the neighbourhood daycare and moss graffiti in an alleyway. As resident Anjum Chagpar said, \"Inspiration breeds inspiration. Simple, fun interventions are contagious.\" Replacing pavement with a pollinator garden on one small street won't solve the vast issues our communities face, but little spaces perhaps hold the greatest potential. To make our cities truly green, we must bring nature to the oft-neglected bits between parks and existing green areas. Streets and sidewalks alone account for about 80 per cent of a city's public space. Private spaces like yards, rooftops and balconies cover more than half the urban landscape. Stretching our visions of urban green space to include these allows us to reimagine the city as a vibrant green mosaic. So it's no surprise that a growing number of design competitions and events are celebrating urban interventions, from PARK(ing) Day, which highlights the transformation of parking spots into temporary public spaces in 35 countries, to 100-in-1 Day, which will be held this year on June 7 in Toronto, Halifax and Vancouver to celebrate citizen-led initiatives that \"raise awareness of urban and social issues, inspire ideas, and motivate leaders to consider new approaches to old problems.\"

This spring, residents successfully funded a project to replace the entire stretch of asphalt with a large pollinator-friendly garden. There's even talk of removing the fence. The ripple effect: People from nearby streets have started organizing their own interventions, like a pollinator garden at the neighbourhood daycare and moss graffiti in an alleyway. As resident Anjum Chagpar said, \"Inspiration breeds inspiration. Simple, fun interventions are contagious.\" Replacing pavement with a pollinator garden on one small street won't solve the vast issues our communities face, but little spaces perhaps hold the greatest potential. To make our cities truly green, we must bring nature to the oft-neglected bits between parks and existing green areas. Streets and sidewalks alone account for about 80 per cent of a city's public space. Private spaces like yards, rooftops and balconies cover more than half the urban landscape. Stretching our visions of urban green space to include these allows us to reimagine the city as a vibrant green mosaic. So it's no surprise that a growing number of design competitions and events are celebrating urban interventions, from PARK(ing) Day, which highlights the transformation of parking spots into temporary public spaces in 35 countries, to 100-in-1 Day, which will be held this year on June 7 in Toronto, Halifax and Vancouver to celebrate citizen-led initiatives that \"raise awareness of urban and social issues, inspire ideas, and motivate leaders to consider new approaches to old problems.\"

Victorian Arts Minister Peter Batchelor on Thursday said that with more than 333,000 tickets sold in Melbourne so far, it's clear that many Australians had connected with the exhibit's unique approach to reliving the doomed voyage. He's featured in Erik Larson's 2003 book The Devil in the White City, which details Chicago's efforts to host the World's Fair and a serial killer who exploited the fair for attracting thousands of young women. He also considered the fair's architect, Daniel Hudson Burnham, a close personal friend who, coincidentally, was on board sister ship RMS Olympic during Titanic's maiden voyage.

\"Dream Cities\" is a \"field guide\" to seven of those visions, each given a one-word title. Three are specific building types: \"monuments,\" \"malls\" and \"slabs\" (high-rise towers). And three are urban forms, although in fact they are profoundly anti-urban. These Mr. [Wade Graham] classifies as \"castles\" (his terms for romantic suburbs), \"homesteads\" (contemporary suburban sprawl) and \"corals\" (the neotraditional towns of the New Urbanism). \"Habitats,\" his last case study, is something of an outlier, somewhere between a building and a city. It refers to those self-contained high-tech megastructures that were briefly fashionable in the 1960s, only to be discredited by the energy crisis of the 1970s and then reborn recently in the form of \"techno-ecologies.\" Norman Foster's provocative Gherkin building in London is perhaps its best known representative. This, Mr. Graham tells us, in what is probably meant to be a hopeful note, is \"without question, the way the world now wants to build.\" The modern shopping mall is the one architectural form in \"Dream Cities\" that is purely commercial in function, but even it, Mr. Graham argues, was visionary in its original conception. This was due almost entirely to Victor Gruen, the Viennese architect who fled the Nazis in 1938 and became America's most prolific builder of malls and shopping centers. In 1943 he proposed a model shopping center in Syracuse that would have had a communal as well as a commercial dimension, including a post office, a library, a public auditorium and even a nursery school. His ideas were swiftly imitated and in the process vulgarized; in the end, the \"communal\" component of the mall shriveled down to a few benches and lampposts, which was a source of great bitterness to Gruen, who returned to Vienna in 1968. For the rest of his life, whenever described as \"the father of the mall,\" he reacted with wrath: \"I refuse to pay alimony for those bastard developments.\"

[Erik Larson], who wrote the real-life hurricane thriller \"Isaac's Storm,\" passes on the sense of wonder the fair instilled in visitors, but his \"Devil in the White City\" is all about the architect who led the construction of the fair, and the serial killer who lived a few blocks away. Daniel Burnham, who designed the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C., found his hands full when planning and building the World's Fair were pushed into them. Though he recruited the creme de la creme of American architects, and Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted for the landscaping, the project ran into every sort of trouble. It dragged on until there was not enough time before Opening Day to construct the buildings out of stone or brick; they were made with a sort of stucco on wood frames. Larson has a remarkable knack by which he drives both narratives, near-to-bursting with details, with equal fervor so the tech types are never bored and the gruesome sorts are never less than titillated.

The accomplished athlete actually plays for Oshawa, but his team failed to make the cut for the event and Napanee asked him to join their squad. It wasn't a big adjustment, as [Daniel Burnham] knew all about the Express from competing against them. \"I had played against them a lot. All the guys were easy to get along with,\" he said. \"I'm a pretty good hitter and a good defensive catcher. (And) I had been (to the nationals) before, so I think that helped them.\"