“To love one”™s city and have a part in its advancement and improvement is the highest privilege and duty of a citizen.” -Daniel Burnham

And who was Daniel Burnham? Some snippets from Wikipedia:

Daniel Hudson Burnham, FAIA (September 4, 1846 ““ June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban planner. He was the Director of Works for the World”™s Columbian Exposition and designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington D.C.

Beginning in 1906 and published in 1909, Burnham and assistant Edward H. Bennett prepared The Plan of Chicago, which laid out plans for the future of the city. It was the first comprehensive plan for the controlled growth of an American city; an outgrowth of the City Beautiful movement. The plan included ambitious proposals for the lakefront and river and declared that every citizen should be within walking distance of a park. Sponsored by the Commercial Club of Chicago, Burnham donated his services in hopes of furthering his own cause.

Burnham helped shape cities such as Cleveland (the Group Plan), San Francisco, Washington, DC (the McMillan Plan), and Manila and Baguio in the Philippines”¦

Almost as a tribute to his urban planning ethos, Burnham”™s final resting spot is given special attention, being located on the only island in the park-like Graceland Cemetery, situated in Chicago”™s Uptown neighborhood. Burnham”™s personal and professional papers are held in the Ryerson and Burnham Archives at the Art Institute of Chicago. Because he was the planner and architect of Baguio City in the Philippines, the city”™s Burnham Park was named after him. In his honor, the American Planning Association named a major annual prize the Daniel Burnham Award for a Comprehensive Plan.