Stadtgeschichten

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Claudia Schnurmann, Iris Wigger
LIT Verlag Münster, 2006 - 305 Seiten

Tales of Two Cities compares both metropolises and soon discovers differences as well as similarities. American and German experts from different fields (for example historians, geographers, architects, journalists or Americanists) join our 'guided tours' through Chicago and Hamburg. They introduce the reader to the sister cities as migration magnets and spaces of different interests. They discuss challenges and chances of urban life, city planning, safety measures or media cities within an Atlantic context. The volume includes contributions in German as well as English.

Claudia Schnurmann is a researcher at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg (Germany). Iris Wigger is a researcher at the School of Sociology at University College in Dublin (Ireland).

 

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Seite 27 - The streets were crowded with land speculators, hurrying from one sale to another. A negro, dressed up in scarlet, bearing a scarlet flag, and riding a white horse with housings of scarlet, announced the times of sale. At every street-corner where he stopped, the crowd flocked round him; and it seemed as if some prevalent mania infected the whole people.‎
Wird in 36 Büchern von 1837 bis 2006 erwähnt
Seite 30 - ... the borders of the lake, we see lines of noble houses, a fine boulevard, a forest of masts, huge isolated piles of masonry, the famed grain elevators by which so many have been hoisted to fortune, churches and public edifices, and the apparatus of a great city ; and just at nine o'clock the train gives its last steam shout and comes to a standstill in the spacious station of the Central Illinois Company...‎
Wird in 8 Büchern von 1863 bis 2006 erwähnt
Seite 27 - Chicago looks raw and bare, standing on the high prairie above the lake-shore. The houses appeared all insignificant, and run up in various directions, without -any principle at all. A friend of mine who resides there had told me that we should find the inns intolerable, at the period of the great land sales, which bring a concourse of speculators to the place. It was even so. The very sight of them was intolerable ; and there was not room for our party among them all I do not know what...‎
Wird in 17 Büchern von 1837 bis 2006 erwähnt
Seite 30 - They were nearing Chicago. Signs were everywhere numerous. Trains flashed by them. Across wide stretches of flat, open prairie they could see lines of telegraph poles stalking across the fields toward the great city. Far away were indications of suburban towns, some big smoke-stacks towering high in the air. Frequently there were two-story frame houses standing out in the open fields, without fence or trees, lone outposts of the approaching army of homes.‎
Wird in 19 Büchern von 1958 bis 2008 erwähnt
Seite 25 - I'm deficient in me liver." Taking the Irishmen, however, throughout the Union, they had not been found deficient in any of the necessaries for a career of war. I do not think that any men have done better than the Irish in the American army. From Dixon we went to Chicago. Chicago is in many respects the most remarkable city among all the remarkable cities of the Union. Its growth has been the fastest and its success the most assured.‎
Wird in 6 Büchern von 1862 bis 2008 erwähnt
Seite 30 - The scene now began to change gradually as we approached Chicago, the prairie subsided into swampy land, and thick belts of trees fringed the horizon; on our right glimpses of the sea could be caught through openings in the wood — the inland sea on which stands the Queen of the Lakes.‎
Wird in 5 Büchern von 1863 bis 2006 erwähnt

Bibliografische Informationen

TitelStadtgeschichten
Band 2 von Atlantic cultural studies, ISSN 2073-3445
HerausgeberClaudia Schnurmann, Iris Wigger
Ausgabeillustriert
VerlagLIT Verlag Münster, 2006
ISBN3825892549, 9783825892548
Länge305 Seiten
  
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