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Our traditional image of Chicago is such a powerful shaper of the city's identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the years. The author tackles some of our more commonly held ideas about the Windy City - inherited from such icons as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Robert Park, and Mike Royko.

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"This is a major new assessment, rich with fresh insights, of Chicago since the last decades of the twentieth century, when the city entered a whole new phase of development that had been long in coming, as it shed virtually all traces not only of the shock city of its formative years but also of the industrial colossus and city of neighborhoods it once was." - Carl Smith, author of The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City"

The Third City Chicago and American Urbanism

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/15/2010 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226042930, 978-0226042930
      ISBN10: 0226042936

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Our traditional image of Chicago is such a powerful shaper of the city's identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the years. The author tackles some of our more commonly held ideas about the Windy City - inherited from such icons as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Robert Park, and Mike Royko.

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      "This is a major new assessment, rich with fresh insights, of Chicago since the last decades of the twentieth century, when the city entered a whole new phase of development that had been long in coming, as it shed virtually all traces not only of the shock city of its formative years but also of the industrial colossus and city of neighborhoods it once was." - Carl Smith, author of The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City"

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