Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Urban Transportation Research and Planning, Current Literature
Author: Pedestrian Movements in the Shopping Area of Downtown Chicago
Author: Pedestrian Traffic in Downtown Chicago
Author: Chicago Transit AuthorityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Central business districts
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Pedestrian Movement: Selected References, 1965-June 1972
Author: Chicago Public Works
Author: Traffic Engineering
Author: The City Planning Process
Author: Alan AltshulerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501741004
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A Pedestrianway Plan for Downtown Chicago
Author: A Shoppers’ Paradise
Author: Emily RemusPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674240316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
How women in turn-of-the-century Chicago used their consumer power to challenge male domination of public spaces and stake their own claim to downtown. Popular culture assumes that women are born to shop and that cities welcome their trade. But for a long time America’s downtowns were hardly welcoming to women. Emily Remus turns to Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century to chronicle a largely unheralded revolution in women’s rights that took place not at the ballot box but in the streets and stores of the business district. After the city’s Great Fire, Chicago’s downtown rose like a phoenix to become a center of urban capitalism. Moneyed women explored the newly built department stores, theaters, and restaurants that invited their patronage and encouraged them to indulge their fancies. Yet their presence and purchasing power were not universally appreciated. City officials, clergymen, and influential industrialists condemned these women’s conspicuous new habits as they took their place on crowded streets in a business district once dominated by men. A Shoppers’ Paradise reveals crucial points of conflict as consuming women accessed the city center: the nature of urban commerce, the place of women, the morality of consumer pleasure. The social, economic, and legal clashes that ensued, and their outcome, reshaped the downtown environment for everyone and established women’s new rights to consumption, mobility, and freedom.
CBD Pedestrian Study
Author: J. NelsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Loop (Chicago, Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description