The third city: Chicago and American urbanism
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1. Verfasser: Bennett, Larry (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2010
Schriftenreihe:Chicago visions + revisions
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
The third city -- Renditions of Chicago -- The mayor among his peers -- The city of neighborhoods -- Wresting the new from the once modern -- Chicago and American urbanism
Our traditional image of Chicago--as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends--is such a powerful shaper of the city's identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the past two decades. Larry Bennett here tackles some of our more commonly held ideas about the Windy City--inherited from such icons as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Daniel Burnham, Robert Park, Sara Paretsky, and Mike Royko--with the goal of better understanding Chicago as it is now: the third city
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 241 pages)
ISBN:0226042936
0226042952
9780226042930
9780226042954

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