Title & Author:

The new Chicago : a social and cultural analysis / edited by John P. Koval [and others].

Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2006.

Description:

x, 353 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-339) and index.
An overview and point of view / John P. Koval. -- Globalization and the remaking of Chicago / Fassil Demissie. -- Economic restructuring: Chicago's precarious balance / David Moberg. -- Chicago's new politics of growth / Larry Bennett. -- The physical transformation of Metropolitan Chicago. Chicago's central area / Charles S. Suchar ; The emergent suburban landscape / Kenneth Fidel. -- Race relations Chicago style: past, present, and future / Michael J. Bennett and Richard T. Schaefer. -- Chicago: the immigrant capital of the heartland / John P. Koval and Kenneth Fidel. -- Latinos of the new Chicago / Rob Paral. -- New Chicago polonia: urban and suburban / Mary Patrice Erdmans. -- Asian Indians in Chicago / Padma Rangaswamy. -- Re-visioning Filipino American communities: evolving identities, issues, and organizations / Yvonne M. Lau. -- The Korean presence in Chicago / Kiljoong Kim. -- Chicago's Chinese Americans: from Chinatown and beyond / Yvonne M. Lau. -- Immigrants from the Arab world / Louise Cainkar. -- Immigrants at work / John P. Koval.
The rebirth of Bronzeville : contested space and contrasting visions / Michael I.J. Bennett -- Devon Avenue : a world market / Padma Rangaswamy -- The affordable housing crisis in the Chicago region / Aurie A. Pinneck and Howard Stanback -- Back to its roots : the Industrial Areas Foundation and United Power for Action and Justice / David Moberg -- Chicago school reform : advancing the global city agenda / Pauline Lipman -- Police and the globalizing city : innovation and contested reinvention / David Plebanski and Roberta Garner -- Transforming public housing / Larry Bennett -- Regionalism in a historically divided metropolis / Larry Bennett -- Coalition politics at America's premier transportation hub / Joseph Schwieterman -- Urban beautification : the construction of a new identity in Chicago / Costas Spirou -- Learning from Chicago / Roberta Garner.

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ISBN:

1592130879 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781592130870 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1592130887 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781592130887 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

City planning Illinois Chicago.
Immigrants Illinois Chicago.
Urbanisme Illinois Chicago.
City planning
Immigrants
Social conditions
Einwanderer
Soziale Situation
Stadtplanung
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions.
Chicago (Ill.) Conditions sociales.
Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Ill.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Koval, John P. (John Patrick), 1935-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247399
Call No.: BIB 176925
Status: Available