Mayor Richard M. Daley
Mayor’s Office, City of Chicago, Chicago
“Chicago; 125 years of Tall – reflections”
In the city where tall buildings began, this presentation highlights the historical trends, drivers and challenges behind tall buildings and sustainable urban development; what city governments can do to promote greener cities. In addition, Chicago, more so than any other U.S. city of the past decade, has witnessed a resurgence of the supertall building and a wealth of significant green development. As the city bids for the 2016 Olympic Games, how is tall urban sustainability being achieved Chicago-style?
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Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has earned a national reputation for his innovative, community-based programs to address education, public safety, neighborhood development and other challenges facing American cities. Time magazine, in its April 25, 2005 issue, said Daley “is widely viewed as the nation’s top urban executive.”
A former state senator and county prosecutor, Daley was elected Mayor on April 4, 1989, to complete the term of the late Harold Washington, and was re-elected in 1991, 1995, 1999 and 2003 by overwhelming margins.
Daley said early in his administration he made a commitment to enhance the environment and make Chicago the most environmentally friendly city in the nation. He identified a few of the environmental projects the city has undertaken in recent years, including:
• Establishing a Green Business Strategy program which works with Chicago companies to help them save money by becoming more sensitive to the environment.
• Developing a Green Permit Program that expedites building permits and waives fees if developers use green techniques.
• Installing rooftop gardens on City buildings to collect rain water, lower temperatures in the summer and reduce the amount of energy needed to cool buildings. More than 300 gardens and green roofs have been constructed or are underway covering more than 4 million square feet on public and private buildings in Chicago.
• Planting more than 500,000 new trees around our city, creating 200 acres of new parks and open spaces and a city wide recycling plan.
• Incorporating environmentally-friendly initiatives into the city's modernization of O'Hare International Airport. The OMP created a "Sustainable Design Manual" - a nationally-recognized document that allows O'Hare to evolve as the benchmark for environmental stewardship in design and construction for a civil project.
• Daley's other achievements in urban design and building include Millennium Park, the LEED-Platinum Chicago Center for Green Technology, Greencorps Chicago and Northerly Island Park.
Daley has been named Municipal Leader of the Year by American City and County magazine; Public Official of the Year by Governing magazine; and Politician of the Year by Library Journal. In 1996 he headed the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
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