[PDF] Chicago Neighborhoods And Suburbs eBook

Author : Ann Durkin Keating
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226428834

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""Which neighborhood?" It's one of the first questions you're asked when you move to Chicago. And the answer you give - be it Bucktown, Bronzeville, or Bridgeport - can give your inquisitor a good idea of who you are, especially in a metropolis with so many different neighborhoods and suburbs to choose from." "Many of us know little of the neighborhoods beyond those where we work, play, and live. This is particularly true in Chicagoland, a region that spans over 4,400 square miles and is home to more than 9.5 million residents. Now, historian Ann Durkin Keating's compact guide, drawn largely from the bestselling Encyclopedia of Chicago, brings the history of Chicago neighborhoods to life."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Ann Durkin Keating
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 2005-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226428826

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Offers the collective history of 230 neighborhoods and communities which formed the bustling network of greater Chicagoland--many connected to the city by the railroad. Profiles the people who built these neighborhoods, and the structures they left behind that still stand today.

Author : Daniel Kay Hertz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1948742101

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"A brief, cogent analysis of gentrification in Chicago ... an incisive and useful narrative on the puzzle of urban development."-- Kirkus Reviews In the years after World War II, a movement began to bring the m

Author : Jason Diamond
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1566895901

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For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties and these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.

Author : Amanda I. Seligman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 2005-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0226746658

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In the decades following World War II, cities across the United States saw an influx of African American families into otherwise homogeneously white areas. This racial transformation of urban neighborhoods led many whites to migrate to the suburbs, producing the phenomenon commonly known as white flight. In Block by Block, Amanda I. Seligman draws on the surprisingly understudied West Side communities of Chicago to shed new light on this story of postwar urban America. Seligman's study reveals that the responses of white West Siders to racial changes occurring in their neighborhoods were both multifaceted and extensive. She shows that, despite rehabilitation efforts, deterioration in these areas began long before the color of their inhabitants changed from white to black. And ultimately, the riots that erupted on Chicago's West Side and across the country in the mid-1960s stemmed not only from the tribulations specific to blacks in urban centers but also from the legacy of accumulated neglect after decades of white occupancy. Seligman's careful and evenhanded account will be essential to understanding that the "flight" of whites to the suburbs was the eventual result of a series of responses to transformations in Chicago's physical and social landscape, occurring one block at a time.

Author : Everett Chamberlin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3382507900

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Ann Durkin Keating
Publisher :
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN :

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Chicago's rapid growth in the mid-nineteenth century was countered by cholera outbreaks, swampy roads, and poor living conditions. This title offers an account of the birth and growth of Chicago's suburbs, the governments that developed to service them, and the ideas that guided early urban development.

Author : Stuart Earl Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 34,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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The suburban residential area running north above Chicago along

Author : Scott Jacques
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 022616425X

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This ethnography of teenage suburban drug dealers “provides a fascinating and powerful counterpoint to the devastation of the drug war” (Alice Goffman, author of On the Run). When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening in disadvantaged, crime-ridden, urban neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere. And teenage users in the suburbs tend to buy drugs from their peers, dealers who have their own culture and code, distinct from their urban counterparts. In Code of the Suburb, Scott Jacques and Richard Wright offer a fascinating ethnography of the culture of suburban drug dealers. Drawing on fieldwork among teens in a wealthy suburb of Atlanta, they carefully parse the complicated code that governs relationships among buyers, sellers, police, and other suburbanites. That code differs from the one followed by urban drug dealers in one crucial respect: whereas urban drug dealers see violent vengeance as crucial to status and security, the opposite is true for their suburban counterparts. As Jacques and Wright show, suburban drug dealers accord status to deliberate avoidance of conflict, which helps keep their drug markets more peaceful—and, consequently, less likely to be noticed by law enforcement.