The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism

by Larry Bennett

Book Overview

Our traditional image of Chicago--as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends--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 past two decades. Larry Bennett here tackles some of our more commonly held ideas about the Windy City--inherited from such icons as Theodore Dreiser, Carl...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226042936
• ISBN13: 9780226042930
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"