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Daniel Burnham's Plan for San Francisco
Daniel Burnham was hired by big time downtown business owners of San Francisco to turn this raggedy rickety but still pretty well off city into something majestic. The city beautiful movement with big civic centers and grand neoclassical structures that stir the soul. Daniel Burnham years later did the Chicago plan. He did a Washington plan which was implemented in a lot of ways.
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