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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.

— Daniel Burnham The Development of Cities of the Future (1910)

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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.

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Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

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

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

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