4 September

Born in 1846 – Daniel Burnham, American architect.

Above: Illustration from Plan of Chicago : prepared under the direction of the Commercial Club during the years MCMVI, MCMVII, and MCMVIII, by Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett, 1909.

Also, born in 1926, Austrian priest and philosopher Ivan Illich.

I believe a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a lifestyle which will enable us to be spontaneous, independent, yet related to each other, rather than maintaining a lifestyle which only allows us to produce and consume.

From Illich’s 1973 book, Tools for Conviviality