Third City Chicago and American Urbanism

Name: Third City Chicago and American Urbanism
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ISBN: 9780226042930

ISBN-10: 0226042936

ISBN-13: 9780226042930

Edition: 2010

Authors: Larry Bennett

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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 cityrs"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 isnow: the third city. Bennett calls contemporary Chicago the third city to distinguish it from its two predecessors: the first…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/15/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English