Urban planners and architects such as Daniel Burnham wanted to
A) rebuild the typical American city with stronger materials so that a catastrophe like the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire would never be repeated.
B) reroute the flow of railroad and vehicular traffic at grade level directly through the heart of the city, so that all urban dwellers would see and appreciate such symbols of economic progress.
C) eliminate slums by building low-income housing on previously unused lakefront property.
D) rebuild the urban landscape to make cities more efficient and beautiful by including wide boulevards, imposing squares, monumental buildings, and parks.
E) improve highways leading to the suburbs so that merchants could build grand commercial palaces where the people could shop for all their needs

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Daniel Burnham was a proponent of the City Beautiful movement, which aimed to redesign cities to be more orderly, efficient, and aesthetically pleasing, often including wide boulevards, squares, monumental buildings, and parks.

Urban Planners and Architects Such as Daniel Burnham Wanted to