Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Planning, Current Literature
Author: Chicago's North Michigan Avenue
Author: John W. StamperPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226770857
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Since its opening in the 1920s, Chicago's North Michigan Avenue has been one of the city's most prestigious commerical corridors, lined by some of its most architecturally distinctive business, residential, and hotel buildings. Planned by Daniel Burnham in 1909, the avenue became the principal connecting link between downtown and the wealthy, residential "Gold Coast" north of the Loop. Some thirty buildings were constructed along its path in the ten-year period before the Depression, an urban expansion comparable in significance to that of Pennsylvania and Park Avenues. John W. Stamper traces the complex development of North Michigan Avenue from the 1880s to the 1920s building boom that solidified its character and economic base, describing the initiation of the planning process by private interests to its execution aided by the city's powerful condemnation and taxation proceedings. He focuses on individual buildings constructed on the avenue, including the Renaissance- and Gothic-inspired Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, and Drake Hotel, and places them within the context of factors governing their construction—property ownership, financing, zoning laws, design theory, and advertising. Stamper compares this stylistically diverse mixture of low- and high-rise structures with earlier, rejected planning proposals, all of which had prescribed a uniformly designed, European-like avenue of continuous cornice heights, consistent facade widths, and complementary stylistic features. He analyzes the drastically different character the avenue took by 1930, with high-rise towers reaching thirty stories and beyond, in terms of the clash among economic, political, and architectural interests. His argument—that the discrepancies between the rejected plans and reality illustrate the developers' choice of economic return on their investment over aesthetic community—is extended through to the present avenue and the virtual disregard of the urban qualities proposed at its inception. Generously illustrated, with an epilogue condensing the avenue's history between the end of World War II and the present, this is an exhaustive account of an important topic in the history of modern architecture and city planning.
Harold Washington and the Neighborhoods
Author: Pierre ClavelPublisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Harold Washington's period as mayor of Chicago in 1983-1987 will be remarked as one of the high points of American city history. Not only was the the city's first black mayor, he put together the first successful rainbow coalition and introduced reforms that signaled the end of the Richard Daley machine. This book documents another, less-noted but equally important aspect of Washington's mayoralty: a progressive neighborhood and economic development agenda, pursued by a network of neighborhood-oriented organizers and professionals, which played a crucial role in legitimating the adminstration generally and institutionalizing major reforms. Neighborhood organizers found themselves in city government after Washington took office. In this book they discuss the roles they played, the experience of being on the inside, and the frustrations of government. Members of the administration pursued such policies as the reallocation of city investments from downtown to the outlying neighborhoods, the redefinition of city economic policy toward providing good jobs rather than developing real estate projects, use of community based organizations to implement city policy, and a committment to broad-based participation. At a time when national policy had withdrawn from urban affairs, such initiatives were remarkable. They also confounded mainstream academic and public opinion. Perhaps it was not impossible, as many claimed, to develop redistributive policies, explore public ownership, address racial discrimination. It is important to examine Harold Washington's policies for what they set out to accomplish and for what they showed about the potential for redistributive policies in American cities.
Chicago-Franklin Line Rail Rapid Transit Project
Author: The Cumulative Book Index
Author: Inland Architect
Author: Guidelines for New Systems of Urban Transportation
Author: Barton-Aschman AssociatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Urban transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Latinos in a Changing US Economy
Author: Rebecca MoralesPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9780803949249
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The contributors identify the increasing differences in income and social status between rich and poor, Anglos and Latinos, men and women, immigrant and native born, and suggest policy options that will reverse the growth of social inequality. National data as well as a series of case studies from important Latino cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Chicago and Miami are presented.
The Community Planning Handbook
Author: Nick WatesPublisher: Earthscan
ISBN: 1853836540
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Community planning is a rapidly developing, increasingly important field. The Community Planning Handbook is a comprehensive, practical guide, with tips, checklists and sample documents to help the reader get started quickly.