The third city : Chicago and American urbanism / Larry Bennett.

Main entry:

Bennett, Larry, 1950-

Title & Author:

The third city : Chicago and American urbanism / Larry Bennett.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Description:

x, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Chicago visions and revisions

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The third city -- Renditions of Chicago -- The mayor among his peers -- The city of neighborhoods -- Wresting the new from the once modern -- Chicago and American urbanism.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Our Traditional Image of Chicago--a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics over-shadows 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 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: the third city.
Bennett calls contemporary Chicago the third city to distinguish it from its two predecessors: the first city, a sprawling industrial center whose historical arc ran from the Civil War to the Great Depression; and the second city, the Rust Belt exemplar of the period from around 1950 to 1990. The third city features a dramatically revitalized urban core, a shifting population mix that includes new immigrant streams, and a growing number of middle-class professionals working in new economy sectors. It is also a city utterly transformed by the top-to-bottom reconstruction of public housing developments and the ambitious provision of public works like Millennium Park. It is, according to Bennett, a work in progress spearheaded by Richard M. Daley, a selfconsciously innovative mayor whose strategy of neighborhood revitalization and urban renewal is a prototype of city governance for the twenty-first century. The Third City ultimately contends that to understand Chicago under Daley's charge is to understand what metropolitan life across North America may well look like in the coming decades. --Book Jacket.

ISBN:

9780226042930 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0226042936 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Daley, Richard M. (Richard Michael), 1942-
Urban renewal Illinois Chicago.
City planning Illinois Chicago.
City and town life Illinois Chicago.
Sociology, Urban Illinois Chicago.
Neighborhoods Illinois Chicago.
Rénovation urbaine Illinois Chicago.
Vie urbaine Illinois Chicago.
Sociologie urbaine Illinois Chicago.
City and town life.
City planning.
Neighborhoods.
Sociology, Urban.
Urban renewal.
Chicago (Ill.) History.
Chicago (Ill.) Histoire.
Illinois Chicago.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Chicago visions + revisions.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 270589
Call No.: BIB 203391
Status: Available

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