# Daniel Burnham

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Make No Little Plans | With Purpose – Episode 37

What kind of future are you building with the plans you have today? In this episode, we kick off a new five-week series on the Art of Leadership with a mural inspired by Daniel Burnham and his challenge to “make no little plans.” Big plans have a way of pulling us forward, inspiring others, and cre…

Why the History of Urban Form is Foundational for City Builders

In this episode, Seth talks with Paul Knight, architect and planner at Historical Concepts, about the study of urban form and why it matters for anyone trying to build better cities. Paul’s thinking was shaped by legendary Georgia Tech professor Doug Allen, whose course on the history of urban form…

The Loop Towards Mastery

Send us Fan Mail Brandon has been chasing a strange question for a long time: why does he love engineering simulation as much as he loves cooking, storytelling, and bowling? The answer showed up while watching the show The Bear. Underneath all of it is the same pursuit, not perfection, but mastery,…

The 1893 World's Fair: The White City, Tesla vs. Edison, and the First Ferris Wheel | History Sleep Story w. Rain Sounds

Drift off tonight beneath the gaslit domes of the White City. This is the full story of the 1893 World's Fair, the Chicago exposition that rose out of a swamp to become the most spectacular event of the nineteenth century, then vanished almost overnight. Settle in under rain sounds and gentle narra…

#470/Authors Trig Thoreson + Owen Hopkins + Craig McDonald + Gusical Guest Lucy Woodward

It's author day on the show. Trig Thoreson wrote a biography of architects Louis Sullivan and Daniel Burnham. Owen Hopkins wrote a book on Brutalist buildings in London. Craig McDonald wrote Mid-Century Modern Midland, exploring the architectural history of Midland, Michigan. Later, returning music…

Did You Know? — September 4: The Day America Transformed

Welcome to Voices of Life with Pastor David. Today’s “Did You Know?” episode explores one of the most unexpectedly transformative dates in American history — September 4. Across more than two centuries, this single day captures the story of a nation becoming itself: from colonial settlement, to tec…

Did You Know? — September 4: The Day America Transformed

Welcome to Voices of Life with Pastor David. Today’s “Did You Know?” episode explores one of the most unexpectedly transformative dates in American history — September 4. Across more than two centuries, this single day captures the story of a nation becoming itself: from colonial settlement, to tec…

Wednesday Random Thoughts: Meat, Tankers, Ballrooms, Midterms—and Leave Arlington Alone

Today on Wednesday Random Thoughts, I bounced around a little. Meat inspection. Tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. Gas and diesel prices. Trump's ballroom. Trump's great big I Love Me midterm convention. And finally, Arlington National Cemetery and an arch nobody asked for. At first glance, th…

Twenty-Seven Million People Saw It. Nine Months Later It Was Gone

In 1893, Chicago drained a swamp on Lake Michigan and built a city out of plaster and light. They called it the White City. About twenty-seven million visits were made to it — in a country of sixty-five million people. It gave us the Ferris wheel. It settled the argument over how electricity would …

The Real Story Behind The Devil in the White City

The episode explores the historical intersection of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and the gruesome crimes of H.H. Holmes, a notorious serial killer. While architect Daniel Burnham worked to create the "White City" as a symbol of human progress and innovation, Holmes operated a nearby "Murder Castle…