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An aerial drawing of a city plan depicting streets, railway lines, piers, and parks, "Yacht Harbor" written on a body of water at bottom. Transit pathways form a dense grid intersected by diagonal lines, many of which coverage near the center.

Plate 110 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Plan of the Complete System of Street Circulation; Railway Stations; Parks, Boulevard Circuits and Radial Arteries; Public Recreation Piers, Yacht Harbor, and Pleasure-Boat Piers; Treatment of Grant Park; the Main Axis and the Civic Center, Presenting the City as a Complete Organism in which All its Functions are Related One to Another in such a Manner that it will Become a Unit

1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham, American, 1846-1912 Edward Herbert Bennett, American, born England, 1874-1954

Chicago

Ink and wash on paper

Architecture and Design