The third city : Chicago and American urbanism
Chicago, urbanism, urbanisme, identité, voisinage, Bennett Larry
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In the first seminar of the Spring 2011 GCI Comparative Urbanisms Series, Professor Bennett will discuss his new book The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism, which examines a variety of Chicago literature, interprets the mayoralty of Richard M. Daley, and reconsiders one of Chicago’s core identities—the city of neighborhoods. This talk will focus on one of the book’s principal themes, Chicago's self-consciousness, and will further explore how this variously expressed local attribute often distorts our perception of the emergent Chicago.<br />
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Dr. Bennett’s research focuses on city planning, redevelopment, neighborhood issues, and contemporary Chicago politics.</div>
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Larry Bennett
27 January 2011
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The third city : Chicago and American urbanism
Chicago, Daley Richard M., renouvellement urbain, gouvernance, Bennett Larry, histoire urbaine, politique de la ville
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> 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.<br /> <br /> Bennett calls contemporary Chicago the third city to distinguish it from its two predecessors: the first city, a sprawling industrial center whose historical arc ran from the Civil War to the Great Depression; and the second city, the Rustbelt exemplar of the period from around 1950 to 1990. The third city features a dramatically revitalized urban core, a shifting population mix that includes new immigrant streams, and a growing number of middle-class professionals working in new economy sectors. It is also a city utterly transformed by the top-to-bottom reconstruction of public housing developments and the ambitious provision of public works like Millennium Park. It is, according to Bennett, a work in progress spearheaded by Richard M. Daley, a self-consciously innovative mayor whose strategy of neighborhood revitalization and urban renewal is a prototype of city governance for the twenty-first century. The Third City ultimately contends that to understand Chicago under Daley’s charge is to understand what metropolitan life across North America may well look like in the coming decades.</div> </div> <b>Larry Bennett </b>is professor of political science at DePaul University.</div> </div>
Larry Bennett
The University of Chicago Press
November 2010
248
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Fragments of cities: The new American downtowns and neighborhoods
, centre-ville, aménagement urbain, renouvellement urbain, voisinage, urbanité, interaction sociale, gentrification, community, communauté, États-Unis, United States, Bennett Larry
<b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Larry Bennett's <i>Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods</i> examines the social consequences of both the new approaches to downtown design and the physical upgrading of residential neighborhoods.</div> </div> Bennett draws upon lively case studies - ranging from Detroit's Renaissance Center to New York City's SoHo to Chicago's Wrigley Field - to relate physical redevelopment and urban social life. He demonstrates that a small, well-located delicatessen can bring people together while clusters of multi-million-dollar office centers in renovated downtowns can drive them apart.</div> </div> Bennett's evaluation of contemporary urban rebuilding, which is unique in giving equal attention to the political, economic, and social impact of urban design and rebuilding, is frequently pessimistic. He finds that the gentrification of many big-city neighborhoods and the design strategies chracterizing new downtowns do little to promote street life, unplanned social encounters, or public life in general. Bennett also contends some advocates and practitioners of the much-praised neighborhood movement have chosen isolation and local security as their primary goals, thus echoing in their concerns the physical plans developed by urban designers. In contrast, Bennett argues, both groups should embrace a vision that encompasses the entire city, or they will risk losing some of the best things cities encourage - surprise, tolerance, innovation, and democratic participation.</div> </div> Bennett does find cause for optimism in the designs of some particularly innovative architects and planners, and he praises the broadening initiatives taken by many residents acting independently to give life to their cities. American cities face a crossroads, he says, and must choose between becoming genuine communities or a series of isolated zones.</div> </div> <b>Contents:</b></div> 1. The new American city</div> 2. The downtown renaissance</div> 3. Neighborhood or enclave?</div> 4. Three visions of the prospective American city</div> 5. The environmental politics of neighborhood</div> 6. The future of the new American city</div> </div> <b>Larry Bennett </b>is Associate Professor of Political Science at DePaul University.</div> </div>
Larry Bennett
The Ohio State University Press
1990
171
Ouvrage
http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6208