Chicago's Industrial Decline : : The Failure of Redevelopment, 1920–1975 / / Robert Lewis.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 13 b&w halftones, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Visions of Chicago
- 1. Industrial Decline and the Rise of the Suburbs
- 2. Building the Suburban Factory and Industrial Decline in Postwar Chicago
- 3. Blight and the Transformation of Industrial Property
- 4. Industrial Property and Blight in the 1950s
- 5. Industrial Renewal and Land Clearance
- 6. Reinventing Industrial Property
- 7. Industrial Parks as Industrial Renewal
- Conclusion: It’s All Over Now
- Appendix: Notes on Datasets and Sources
- Notes
- Index