Suttles, Gerald D.

The man-made city : the land-use confidence game in Chicago / Gerald D. Suttles.

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.

xiii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.

0226781933 (alk. paper)
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City planning Illinois Chicago.
Community development Illinois Chicago.
Neighborhoods Illinois Chicago.
City planning.
Community development.
Neighborhoods.
Social conditions
Stadtplanung
Stadsplanning.
Stadsvernieuwing.
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions.
Illinois Chicago.
Chicago, Ill.
Cities Structure planning
Illinois

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