Author: James Gilbert
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226293181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
IllustrationsPreface1. Itineraries2. Chicago: Two Profiles3. Approaches: Discovery from a Distance4. First City: Form and Fantasy5. Second City: Our Town6. Third City: The Evangelical Metropolis7. Exit: The Gray CityNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Perfect Cities
Author: James Gilbert
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226293181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
IllustrationsPreface1. Itineraries2. Chicago: Two Profiles3. Approaches: Discovery from a Distance4. First City: Form and Fantasy5. Second City: Our Town6. Third City: The Evangelical Metropolis7. Exit: The Gray CityNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226293181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
IllustrationsPreface1. Itineraries2. Chicago: Two Profiles3. Approaches: Discovery from a Distance4. First City: Form and Fantasy5. Second City: Our Town6. Third City: The Evangelical Metropolis7. Exit: The Gray CityNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893
Author: James Burkhart Gilbert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Perfec Cities
Author: James Burkhart Gilbert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968
Author: Lisa Krissoff Boehm
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135932565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This book is an examination of the image of Chicago in American popular culture between the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and Chicago's 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135932565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This book is an examination of the image of Chicago in American popular culture between the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and Chicago's 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Utopias and Utopians
Author: Richard C.S. Trahair
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113594766X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Utopian ventures are worth close attention, to help us understand why some succeed and others fail, for they offer hope for an improved life on earth. Utopias and Utopians is a comprehensive guide to utopian communities and their founders. Some works look at literary utopias or political utopias, etc., and others examine the utopias of only one country: this work examines utopias from antiquity to the present and surveys utopian efforts around the world. Of more than 600 alphabetically arranged entries roughly half are descriptions of utopian ventures; the other half are biographies of those who were involved. Entries are followed by a list of sources and a general bibliography concludes the volume.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113594766X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Utopian ventures are worth close attention, to help us understand why some succeed and others fail, for they offer hope for an improved life on earth. Utopias and Utopians is a comprehensive guide to utopian communities and their founders. Some works look at literary utopias or political utopias, etc., and others examine the utopias of only one country: this work examines utopias from antiquity to the present and surveys utopian efforts around the world. Of more than 600 alphabetically arranged entries roughly half are descriptions of utopian ventures; the other half are biographies of those who were involved. Entries are followed by a list of sources and a general bibliography concludes the volume.
Chicago's Great World's Fairs
Author: John E. Findling
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719036309
Category : Century of Progress International Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719036309
Category : Century of Progress International Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840–1917
Author: Jon A. Peterson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801872105
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801872105
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher Description
Capital's Utopia
Author: Anne E. Mosher
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421429241
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the 1890s the Apollo Iron and Steel Company ended a bitterly contested labor dispute by hiring replacement workers from the surrounding countryside. To avoid future unrest, however, the company sought to gain tighter control over its workers not only at the factory but also in their homes. Drawing upon a philosophy of reform movements in Europe and the United States, the firm decided that providing workers with good housing and a good urban environment would make them more loyal and productive. In 1895, Apollo Iron and Steel built a new, integrated, non-unionized steelworks and hired the nation's preeminent landscape architectural firm (Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot) to design the model industrial town: Vandergrift. In Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916, Anne E. Mosher offers the first comprehensive geographical overview of the industrial restructuring of an American steelworks and its workforce in the late nineteenth–century. In addition, by offering a thorough analysis of the Olmsted plan, Mosher integrates historical geography and labor history with landscape architectural history and urban studies. As a result, this book is far more than a case study. It is a window into an important period of industrial development and its consequences on communities and environments in the world-famous steel country of southwestern Pennsylvania.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421429241
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In the 1890s the Apollo Iron and Steel Company ended a bitterly contested labor dispute by hiring replacement workers from the surrounding countryside. To avoid future unrest, however, the company sought to gain tighter control over its workers not only at the factory but also in their homes. Drawing upon a philosophy of reform movements in Europe and the United States, the firm decided that providing workers with good housing and a good urban environment would make them more loyal and productive. In 1895, Apollo Iron and Steel built a new, integrated, non-unionized steelworks and hired the nation's preeminent landscape architectural firm (Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot) to design the model industrial town: Vandergrift. In Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916, Anne E. Mosher offers the first comprehensive geographical overview of the industrial restructuring of an American steelworks and its workforce in the late nineteenth–century. In addition, by offering a thorough analysis of the Olmsted plan, Mosher integrates historical geography and labor history with landscape architectural history and urban studies. As a result, this book is far more than a case study. It is a window into an important period of industrial development and its consequences on communities and environments in the world-famous steel country of southwestern Pennsylvania.
Freedom's Ballot
Author: Margaret Garb
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022613606X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city’s first black alderman, Oscar De Priest. In a city where African Americans made up less than five percent of the voting population, and in a nation that dismissed and denied black political participation, De Priest’s victory was astonishing. It did not, however, surprise the unruly group of black activists who had been working for several decades to win representation on the city council. Freedom’s Ballot is the history of three generations of African American activists—the ministers, professionals, labor leaders, clubwomen, and entrepreneurs—who transformed twentieth-century urban politics. This is a complex and important story of how black political power was institutionalized in Chicago in the half-century following the Civil War. Margaret Garb explores the social and political fabric of Chicago, revealing how the physical makeup of the city was shaped by both political corruption and racial empowerment—in ways that can still be seen and felt today.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022613606X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
In the spring of 1915, Chicagoans elected the city’s first black alderman, Oscar De Priest. In a city where African Americans made up less than five percent of the voting population, and in a nation that dismissed and denied black political participation, De Priest’s victory was astonishing. It did not, however, surprise the unruly group of black activists who had been working for several decades to win representation on the city council. Freedom’s Ballot is the history of three generations of African American activists—the ministers, professionals, labor leaders, clubwomen, and entrepreneurs—who transformed twentieth-century urban politics. This is a complex and important story of how black political power was institutionalized in Chicago in the half-century following the Civil War. Margaret Garb explores the social and political fabric of Chicago, revealing how the physical makeup of the city was shaped by both political corruption and racial empowerment—in ways that can still be seen and felt today.
Working at Play
Author: Cindy Sondik Aron
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195142341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This text chronicles the history of vacationing in America since the early 19th century. It is concerned with how, when, and why vacationing came to be part of life, charting this social and cultural institution as it grew from the custom of a small elite in to a mass phenomenon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195142341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This text chronicles the history of vacationing in America since the early 19th century. It is concerned with how, when, and why vacationing came to be part of life, charting this social and cultural institution as it grew from the custom of a small elite in to a mass phenomenon