Burnham, Daniel

The turn-of-the-century architect and planner Daniel Burnham is remembered for his famous quotation, Make no little plans they lack the fire to excite men s minds. Gender aside, Burnham was speaking for a revolutionary vision. The pollution prevention movement should more boldly state a vision and goals for the next century. The plans for green chemistry and green solvents are not little, and in the pages that follow we can readily see that the response of scientists has been great. 

Bruce S.Burnham, Rider University Jerry A. Hirsch, Seton Hall University John L. Isidor, Montclair State University Allan K. Lazarus, Trenton State College Kenneth R. Overly, Richard Stockton College Alan Rosan, Drew University John Sowa, Seton Hall University Daniel Trifan, Pairleigh Dickinson University... 

Typifying the combination of businessman and fluent designer, Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846-1912) travelled to study at the French Ecole des Beaux Arts. He returned to Chicago just as the indigenous form of the early settlers, timber shed construction, was being appropriated for the first skyscraper frames, tens of storeys high. ... 

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