The Man-Made City: The Land-Use Confidence Game in Chicago

by Gerald D. Suttles

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With its extraordinary uniform street grid, its magnificent lake-side park, and innovative architecture and public sculpture, Chicago is one of the most planned cities of the modern era. Yet over the past few decades Chicago has come to epitomize some of the worst evils of urban decay: widespread graft and corruption, political stalemates, troubled race relations, and economic decline. Broad-shouldered boosterism can no longer disguise the city's...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226781933

ISBN13:9780226781938

Release Date:March 1990

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:326 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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Architecture Social Science Social Sciences Sociology Specific Demographics

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