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Virtual Burnham Initiative launches Web site
Lake Forest, Ill. - After two years of intense work, Lake Forest College is pleased to announce that the Virtual Burnham Initiative (VBI), funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, has been officially launched.
You can experience the “Chicago that Never Was” at this URL: http://vbi.lakeforest.edu/.
If you download the free program (Google Earth), you may download Google Earth files (kmz. extension) from the VBI (See “GO>Virtual Models”) to place never-built structures from the 1909 Plan of Chicago on your screen.
If you prefer the more leisurely approach, the Web site offers a series of slide shows—on almost every page—that provide images from the project.
Additional offerings include links to map overlays from the 1909 Plan; partner content from Waukegan, Lake Forest, and Highland Park high schools; and links to the College’s new Marcia O. and Edward H. Bennett III archives (Bennett was Burnham’s partner and co-author of the Plan) as well as the soon-to-be-released book Beyond Burnham: An Illustrated History of Planning for the Chicago Region from Lake Forest College Press.
"This work would not have been possible," says the site's coordinator Associate Professor of English Davis Schneiderman, "without the efforts of Lake Forest faculty Holly Swyers, Rachel Ragland, Don Meyer, and former project co-Director Donnie Sendelbach."
"Yet, the majority of the credit goes to the tireless efforts of the many current and former LFC students who have done everything from designing the virtual models to programming the web site to creating publicity materials. They are:
• Joshua Anderson '10, Lead modeler for the Letters Building in Grant Park and The Court House in the Civic Center
• Elizabeth Birnbaum '08, Research assistant, viral video
• Emily Hilgenberg '11, Music for publicity videos
• Karen Larson '11, Summer 2008 project co-ordinator (Richter Scholar), publicity videos
• Kamil Madjeski '10, Virtual models
• Michael Ojdana '08, Lead modeler and researcher for the Science Building, Art Building, Grant Park landscape, and the Monroe Harbor
• Quincy Roberts '09, Early design work
• Saugat Shrestha '11, Webmaster, overlay creator
• Emily Snowberg '11, Summer 2009 research assistant
• Clarissa Thiessen '10, Virtual models, research assistant
• Erik Wingo '09, Early design work
• Minxu Zhang '12, Summer 2009 project co-ordinator (Richter Scholar)."
You can experience the “Chicago that Never Was” at this URL: http://vbi.lakeforest.edu/.
If you download the free program (Google Earth), you may download Google Earth files (kmz. extension) from the VBI (See “GO>Virtual Models”) to place never-built structures from the 1909 Plan of Chicago on your screen.
If you prefer the more leisurely approach, the Web site offers a series of slide shows—on almost every page—that provide images from the project.
Additional offerings include links to map overlays from the 1909 Plan; partner content from Waukegan, Lake Forest, and Highland Park high schools; and links to the College’s new Marcia O. and Edward H. Bennett III archives (Bennett was Burnham’s partner and co-author of the Plan) as well as the soon-to-be-released book Beyond Burnham: An Illustrated History of Planning for the Chicago Region from Lake Forest College Press.
"This work would not have been possible," says the site's coordinator Associate Professor of English Davis Schneiderman, "without the efforts of Lake Forest faculty Holly Swyers, Rachel Ragland, Don Meyer, and former project co-Director Donnie Sendelbach."
"Yet, the majority of the credit goes to the tireless efforts of the many current and former LFC students who have done everything from designing the virtual models to programming the web site to creating publicity materials. They are:
• Joshua Anderson '10, Lead modeler for the Letters Building in Grant Park and The Court House in the Civic Center
• Elizabeth Birnbaum '08, Research assistant, viral video
• Emily Hilgenberg '11, Music for publicity videos
• Karen Larson '11, Summer 2008 project co-ordinator (Richter Scholar), publicity videos
• Kamil Madjeski '10, Virtual models
• Michael Ojdana '08, Lead modeler and researcher for the Science Building, Art Building, Grant Park landscape, and the Monroe Harbor
• Quincy Roberts '09, Early design work
• Saugat Shrestha '11, Webmaster, overlay creator
• Emily Snowberg '11, Summer 2009 research assistant
• Clarissa Thiessen '10, Virtual models, research assistant
• Erik Wingo '09, Early design work
• Minxu Zhang '12, Summer 2009 project co-ordinator (Richter Scholar)."
