The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism

(Part of the Chicago Visions and Revisions Series)

by 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 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226042936

ISBN13:9780226042930

Release Date:November 2010

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.99 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

City Planning & Urban Development History Local Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Urban

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