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Quotes from The Development of Cities of the Future — Daniel Burnham

1846–1912 United States

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Where a town lies near water, keep all the shore for the people.

The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

Broadly speaking, the city of the future will not bring to its center any goods not intended for use or consumption therein.

The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

Pessimists abound and have always abounded. To them most of the big and splended things are chimerical.

The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

We do things that would make our forbears think us magicians.

The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

It takes far greater ability to subvert liberty now than ever before since man’s history began, and so I promise permanence to democratic institutions.

The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daniel Burnham (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.