Author: South Side Planning Board, ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
An Opportunity to Rebuild Chicago Through Industrial Development on the Central South Side
Author: South Side Planning Board, ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Origins of the Dual City
Author: Joel RastPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022666161X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. More than ever, Chicago is a “dual city,” a condition taken for granted by many residents. In this book, Joel Rast reveals that today’s tacit acceptance of rising urban inequality is a marked departure from the past. For much of the twentieth century, a key goal for civic leaders was the total elimination of slums and blight. Yet over time, as anti-slum efforts faltered, leaders shifted the focus of their initiatives away from low-income areas and toward the upgrading of neighborhoods with greater economic promise. As misguided as postwar public housing and urban renewal programs were, they were born of a long-standing reformist impulse aimed at improving living conditions for people of all classes and colors across the city—something that can’t be said to be a true priority for many policymakers today. The Origins of the Dual City illuminates how we normalized and became resigned to living amid stark racial and economic divides.
Chicago's Industrial Decline
Author: Robert LewisPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501752634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In Chicago's Industrial Decline Robert Lewis charts the city's decline since the 1920s and describes the early development of Chicago's famed (and reviled) growth machine. Beginning in the 1940s and led by local politicians, downtown business interest, financial institutions, and real estate groups, place-dependent organizations in Chicago implemented several industrial renewal initiatives with the dual purpose of stopping factory closings and attracting new firms in order to turn blighted property into modern industrial sites. At the same time, a more powerful coalition sought to adapt the urban fabric to appeal to middle-class consumption and residential living. As Lewis shows, the two aims were never well integrated, and the result was on-going disinvestment and the inexorable decline of Chicago's industrial space. By the 1950s, Lewis argues, it was evident that the early incarnation of the growth machine had failed to maintain Chicago's economic center in industry. Although larger economic and social forces—specifically, competition for business and for residential development from the suburbs in the Chicagoland region and across the whole United States—played a role in the city's industrial decline, Lewis stresses the deep incoherence of post-WWII economic policy and urban planning that hoped to square the circle by supporting both heavy industry and middle- to upper-class amenities in downtown Chicago.
An Opportunity to Rebuild Chicago Through Industrial Development on the Central South Side
Author: South Side Planning Board, ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Urban Politics
Author: Stephen J. McGovernPublisher: CQ Press
ISBN: 1506311210
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1361
Book Description
Steve McGovern’s Urban Politics: A Reader examines the changing structure of political power in cities through the lens of historical development, accompanied with brief explorations of pertinent public policy issues. Having studied and taught urban politics for over 20 years, McGovern (Haverford College) foregrounds his approach with a discussion of cities in a global era, and then divides the material into five parts, or themes: the formation of city politics; city politics under stress; the politics of urban revitalization; the changing dynamics of urban politics; and visions of contemporary urban politics. He expands the scope of his exploration by integrating literature that is not commonly observed in urban politics texts, i.e. works by journalists as well as scholars, and by including debates about political power in both big and smaller cities.
Planning, Current Literature
Author: The Planning Bookshelf
Author: Regional Plan Association (New York, N.Y.). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Regional planning
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Subject Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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