The Man-Made City: The Land-Use Confidence Game in Chicago

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University of Chicago Press, 21.03.1990 - 312 Seiten
With its extraordinary uniform street grid, its magnificent lake-side park, and innovative architecture and public sculpture, Chicago is one of the most planned cities of the modern era. Yet over the past few decades Chicago has come to epitomize some of the worst evils of urban decay: widespread graft and corruption, political stalemates, troubled race relations, and economic decline. Broad-shouldered boosterism can no longer disguise the city's failure to keep pace with others, its failure to attract new "sunrise" industries and world-class events. For Chicago, as for other rust-belt cities, new ways of planning and managing the urban environment are now much more than civic beautification; they are the means to survival.

Gerald D. Suttles here offers an irreverent, highly critical guide to both the realities and myths of land-use planning and development in Chicago from 1976 through 1987.

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The ManMade City
3
The Third City
19
Neighborhood Redevelopment from Above
51
Conclusion
82
The Big Project and the Politics of Urgency
121
Books
133
From the City Beautiful to the Community
155
Just a Few Good Men
187
Menckens Middle Empire
229
Political
261
Methodological Appendix
279
Bibliography
295
Index
307
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Autoren-Profil (1990)

Gerald Suttles is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Chicago and adjunct professor of sociology at Indiana University.

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