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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,…
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…
Abstract from the publisher: Larry Bennett's Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods examines the social consequences of both the new approaches to downtown design and the physical upgrading of residential neighborhoods. …