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The Chicago City Plan


by Dr. Irving D. Fisher

Type of Event: Banquet Address

Date Recorded: February 09, 1988

Location: Bryn Athyn Heilman Hall

Groups: Swedenborg Symposium 1988

Theme: Swedenborg and His Influence.
Irving D. Fisher is Professor of political science at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine. He took his Ph.D. in Political Philosophy at Columbia University, and at Bowdoin College. He initiated his study of Daniel Burnham's "Plan of Chicago" while a Fellow in the National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar at Columbia University. Fisher has been director of the Robert A. Taft Institute of Government Seminar at the University of Southern Maine since 1979. He is the author of the book "Frederick Lars Olmsted and the City Planning Movement in the United States", published in 1986. (To see all 24 talks from this event, select "Swedenborg Symposium" from the Group search on the home page.)


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