"Make No Little Plans" - Some advice from urban planner and architect Daniel Burnham

This year is the 100th anniversary of the Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago, perhaps the zenith of the City Beautiful period of American City Planning - an era characterized by optimism for the perfection of the city and the betterment of every individual. Burnham was renowned in his day as an urban planner and architect architect of numerous early skyscrapers and planner of the Chicago world's fair of in 1893. Though not realized in his lifetime, Burnham's plan of Chicago has continued to influence the development of the city over the last century, particularly the development of a coninous public park along the lake-shore. In rememberance of grand visions of social betterment, let us marinate ourselves in his famous dictum, "Make no little plans."

"Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. 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. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big."

Enjoy the snow out there today.