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Building Chicago: Suburban developers and the creation of a divided metropolis
Abstract from the publisher:
The suburban subdivision, replete with identical houses, lawns, and families, is a familiar icon of contemporary American culture. Equally familiar are suburban governments, which many critics describe as providers of…
Urban revolt: Ethnic politics in the nineteenth-century Chicago labor movement
Extract from the Preface:
I became interested in nineteenth-century Chicago labor history in an indirect way. I had begun a study of political mobilization in Chicago community organizing and felt that I could not understand the political process…
Chicago 1910-1930 : le chantier de la ville moderne
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Si le grand incendie de 1871 vient un temps interrompre son essor, il permet de penser une reconstruction de la ville selon des critères modernes. Ainsi naît l'école d'architecture de…
The mysteries of the great city: The politics of urban design, 1877-1937
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The Mysteries of the Great City examines the physical, cultural, and political transformations of the American city between the Gilded Age and the New Deal. Focusing on New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati, John Fairfield…
La Privatisation de Chicago
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Dans un environnement global où les villes sont en compétition les unes avec les autres, les autorités municipales de Chicago ont mis en place, depuis une vingtaine…
Histoire de chicago
Depuis un siècle et demi, la ville de Chicago attire et fascine les observateurs de l’Amérique tant elle incarne une modernité urbaine spectaculaire et triomphante. Barack Obama, qui s’y installa et y entama sa carrière politique, la qualifie de «…
Planning in divided cities
Abstract from the publisher : Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but there has since been a move towards a more decentralised…
Spectacular reconstructions: Ways of seeing and the politics of recovery in American urban disasters
Abstract from the distributor :
Kevin Rozario uses the two most devastating urban catastrophes in American history, the Chicago fire of 1871 and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, to explore how extraordinary recovery from sudden ruination can…
Kevin Rozario uses the two most devastating urban catastrophes in American history, the Chicago fire of 1871 and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, to explore how extraordinary recovery from sudden ruination can…
The third city : Chicago and American urbanism
Abstract from the publisher : 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…
La Privatisation de Chicago. Idéologie de genre et constructions sociales
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Dans un environnement global où les villes sont en compétition les unes avec les autres, les autorités municipales de Chicago ont mis en place, depuis une vingtaine…
City visions 1910 / 2010 : Urban planning in Berlin, London, Paris and Chicago 1910 and 2010
Extract from the catalogue :
The exhibition City Visions 1910 | 2010 is a celebration of the anniversary of the General Town Planning Exhibition. It compares two key moments in time: The years around 1910 and 2010.
1910
The planning exhibition…
The city, revisited : Urban theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York
Abstract from the publisher : Reexamining urban scholarship for the twenty-first century The contributors to The City, Revisited trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic The City, engaging…