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The Third City
Larry Bennett
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Description for The Third City
Hardcover. Our traditional image of Chicago 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 years. The author tackles some of our more commonly held ideas about the Windy City - inherited from such icons as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Robert Park, and Mike Royko. Series: Chicago Visions and Revisions. Num Pages: 248 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; HBJK; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
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: ... Read more
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: ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Chicago Visions and Revisions
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226042930
SKU
V9780226042930
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About Larry Bennett
Larry Bennett is professor of political science at DePaul University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Politics: Chicago and Sheffield, and It's Hardly Sportin': Stadiums, Neighborhoods, and the New Chicago.
Reviews for The Third City
"This is a major new assessment, rich with fresh insights, of Chicago since the last decades of the twentieth century, when the city entered a whole new phase of development that had been long in coming, as it shed virtually all traces not only of the shock city of its formative years but also of the industrial colossus and city ... Read more