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1. Chicago: A Geography of the City
2. The Politics of Place: A History
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3. Neighborhood Planning and Community-Based
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4. Where Are Poor People to Live?:
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5. Hypothetical City Workbook III:
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6. City Spaces: Photographs of Chicago
 
7. Time and Place in Joliet: Essays
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8. Shock Cities: The Environmental
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9. City in Time: Chicago
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10. Black on the Block: The Politics
 
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11. Chicago: Geography and Climate:
 
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12. Aurora: Geography and Climate:
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13. Valley City, Illinois
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14. Granite City, Illinois
 
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15. Yates City, Illinois
 
16. Historic Nauvoo. A Descriptive
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17. Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide
 
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18. Peter J. Kalliney. Cities of Affluence
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19. The Chicago Auditorium Building:
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20. Northern Illinois: Chicago Metropolitan

1. Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places)
by John C. Hudson
Hardcover: 356 Pages (2006-07-01)
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The geography of Chicago is central to its history and to its success as the nation’s now third largest metropolitan area. The first geography of the Windy City in more than fifty years, Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region is a topical and chronological analysis of the area that both considers the city’s historical geography and anticipates its future trends.

Renowned geographer John C. Hudson leaves no aspect unexplored in this ambitious and peerless book. Beginning with an overview of metropolitan Chicago, Hudson describes how the city has served as a model to social scientists and examines its unique neighborhoods and communities from the perspectives of Chicagoans themselves. A thorough description of the physical geography of the region introduces a series of studies in historical geography that consider the origins of the city and its early development through to its present state, paying particular attention to race, ethnicity, and suburbanization, as well as commuting patterns, neighborhood change, and patterns of income distribution. Chicago concludes with a comparison of the balanced geography that prevailed in the early twentieth century with the skewed pattern of sectoral imbalances that exists today.

Supplemented with more than one hundred maps that illustrate the evolution of Chicago over time and sixty-four black-and-white and color photographs that capture iconic images of the city’s landscapes and its people, Chicago beautifully synthesizes the city’s social and economic strata with geographical features to provide an authoritative guide to modern Chicagoland.
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2. The Politics of Place: A History of Zoning in Chicago (Illinois)
by Joseph Schwieterman, Dana Caspall
Paperback: 193 Pages (2006-02-22)
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Isbn: 1893121267
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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3-0 out of 5 stars factually informative but could use a little more perspective
This book is a blow-by-blow history of zoning in Chicago, showing how zoning became more and more restrictive over time.In Chicago, as in suburbia, government regulation sought to make the city more suburb-like: to require lower density and more parking every decade.

For example, the authors describe the 1942 zoning code as part of "an era of great innovation."Why?Because the city limited the intensity of development and required off-street parking for apartment buildings. In 1967, the city put more teeth in these rules by becoming less permissive towards variances; in the first third of 1967, it granted 86 percent of all variance requests, while later in the year it granted only 49 percent.

In 1971, the city went even further, requiring one parking space per dwelling unit, limiting the number of efficiencies in an apartment building, and requiring sideyards for apartment buildings. Even the city's 2004 zoning code (which in some ways tried to make the city more pedestrian-friendly) limited density even further in some areas.In addition, the code required any downtown building over 440 feet tall, and some residential developments as well, to be submitted as "planned developments" (thus requiring developers to negotiate details with the city) rather than through a less bureaucratic "as of right" procedure.

As historically interesting as this book is, I wish the authors had been more critical of this trend.The authors seem to write from the point of view of anti-density, NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) neighborhood activists, overlooking some of the unintended consequences of Chicago's regulatory trends.For example, if a city limits density in a desirable neighborhood, fewer people can live in that neighborhood- and many of the people priced out of the most desirable city neighborhoods will move to suburbia rather than to less desirable city neighborhoods.And every bit of land devoted to parking is a bit of land that could have been devoted to commerce or housing, thus possibly contributing to Chicago's decline in the late 20th century.And where parking is free or cheap thanks to a government-mandated ample supply, driving to work becomes more tempting than public transit, with negative environmental consequences. And more broadly, if development in a city is a bureaucratic hassle, and development in suburbia is "as of right", suburbia will become more tempting.

Yet after writing about the numerous ways in which government limited height and density, the authors write that despite the city's population losses, the zoning code "continued to encourage high-rise, high-density development."Do the authors really believe that Chicago be better off at a Detroit-like density?The failure of Detroit suggests otherwise.

5-0 out of 5 stars Great for People who Love Chicago
Reviewed by Kathleen Dowdell for Reader Views (6/06)

For people who love the city of Chicago or who are interested in the intricate details of how cities are laid out to accommodate diverse activity, this book was meant for you. This is a well written and thoroughly researched documentation of the history of zoning in the city of Chicago. Zoning, regulations that separate residential and industrial activity, is a complex process whose idea germinated from Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago, which supported the need for the city to control its cultural and economic identity. After years of planning and drafting, the Chicago City Council adopted the zoning ordinance on April 5, 1923, thus the beginning of the development of Chicago as we see it today.

As zoning needs changed in the 1950's, planners sought to establish Chicago as a world- class city and used zoning to do just that. They began to promote high-rise, high-density office and residential development based on population forecasts which predicted dramatic growth in the city. As controversial as zoning became over the years, the city gained much experience in working with developers, residents, and grass-roots organizations that wanted a say in how their neighborhoods were being developed. Skyscrapers were shooting up everywhere and many were concerned they would smother the openness of the retail districts and views of the lake. Over the years, height and volume limits increased making Chicago what it is today, the architectural genius and much coveted work/leisure city of the world.

Published in 2006, "The Politics of Place: A History of Zoning in Chicago" gives a brief overview of the early development of Chicago from the time it incorporated as a village in 1833 through today. There are some interesting aerial views of the city as well as residential and commercial developments. This would make a nice gift for an architectural historian or people who work in commercial or residential planning and development.

5-0 out of 5 stars Strongly recommended for all readers with an interest in the culinary arts
A Cook's Guide To Chicago: Where To Find Everything You Need And Lots Of Things You Didn't Know You Did by Marilyn Pocius is expanded and updated second edition of an informed and informatively detailed exploration into the great city of Chicago's tasty delicacies and dishes. Inclusive of recipes ranging from Yucca With Marilyn's Mojo; Genna's Spinach Risotto; and Lee's Borscht to Pickled Pink; Double-Ginger Rhubarb Chutney; and Chef Tim's Vietnamese-Style Pork Tenderloin, A Cook's Guide To Chicago offers readers not only the addresses, histories, and tastes of remarkable restaurants, but easy-to-follow and "kitchen cook friendly" recipes from them as well. A Cook's Guide To Chicago is very strongly recommended for all readers with an interest in the culinary arts and for those wishing to discover the most intriguing culture of the amazing Chicago area.
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3. Neighborhood Planning and Community-Based Development: The Potential and Limits of Grassroots Action (Cities and Planning)
by Dr. William Peterman
Hardcover: 208 Pages (1999-12-01)
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Exploring the promise and limits of grassroots strategies for community organizing, development and planning, this book looks at how they can be used in the revitalization and maintenance of urban neighborhoods. The book presents a number of case studies from the United States, analyzing the reasons for success and failure, and concludes with recommendations in the form of a "tool kit" for planners and community leaders. ... Read more


4. Where Are Poor People to Live?: Transforming Public Housing Communities (Cities and Contemporary Society)
Hardcover: 328 Pages (2006-04)
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Asin: 0765610752
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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4-0 out of 5 stars A Significant Contribution
Scholars and interested parties critical of the presumptions and practicies of HUD's infamous HOPE VI program have often had a byzantine research path to follow.Part of the blame falls on the lack of institutional memory at HUD (referenced in the Zhang and Weismann paper in chapter 2 of this book), but serious critical insight into this program has been a long time in coming.Given the considerable impacts this program has had and continues to have on urban ethnic and racial minorities, that is a major public administration shortcoming.

Using the ongoing Chicago "Plan for Transformation" experience as a springboard, this volume furnishes the best one volume treatment of ongoing American public housing "transformations" currently available.This book is highly informative; in addition to containing chapters on the historical context of 1990's "transformation," the book also furnishes analysis of what the demolition of public housing actually looked like on the ground, who stood (and stands) to benefit from the gentrification engendered by the demolition of high profile public housing, and also contains some excellent critical analysis of the "new urbanist" premises that were built into the HOPE VI program in the early to mid 1990's.

This book is a much-needed critical antidote to the architectural determinism of much of the "smart growth" and "new urbanist" dogma still seeping out of this country's leading urban and regional planning schools.One noteworthy example:New Orleans, post hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Armed with the information this book contains, advocates and activists nationwide should be able to stand on more equal footing with the well compensated "consultants," professors, and graduate students that were responsible for the demolition of many historic public housing communities around the United States.

Note:This review refers to the paperback edition of this book, which is considerably more affordable than the hardcover version.The binding of the paperback edition is pretty flimsy (pages are already falling out of my almost new copy), but the lower price makes that acceptable. ... Read more


5. Hypothetical City Workbook III: Exercises and GIS Data to Accompany Urban Land Use Planning, Fifth Edition (No. 3)
by Ann-Margaret Esnard
Paperback: 136 Pages (2006-04-10)
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This workbook is designed to guide the user through the formulation of the components of a future land use plan. It provides hands-on experience with the application of GIS technology for land analysis at various scales; guides the user through the process of working with factual land use, population and socio-economic data; as well as assessing land use policies to formulate alternative land use plans and designs. The workbook also includes a special CD containing GIS data files. New to this edition are many additional illustrative images, GIS exercise instructions written for ArcGIS with useful screenshots to facilitate the completion of exercises, and revised and new data sets on CD (including parcels, roads, water and sewer service boundaries, and streams). This new edition also includes updated and new exercises for identifying issues and constructing scenarios; communitywide land use design; creating a small area plan; land supply and demand acreages via generalized land use categories, and the plan quality evaluation protocol.The exercises in this workbook are designed to complement "Urban Land Use Planning, 5th Edition", but may also be used on their own in city planning, geography, and urban studies courses. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars Workbook is a great to a class.
I have used the Hypo-City workbook in my Land Use and Growth Management course at the University of Virginia for several years. What I like about the workbook is that it is based on GIS layers and approaches plan making as a logical series of layered rounds reflected in eight exercises. These can be used selectively - I use four of them and actually use several texts rather than Urban Land Use Planning. Students/instructors can customize the exercises to emphasize particular issues or to partially replicate a real community. Students work in teams and welcome this applied addition to course readings and lectures. I have developed a modification to highlight the issue of exurban sprawl and would be happy to share that with anyone who is interested. Contact me at dotson@virginia.edu. ... Read more


6. City Spaces: Photographs of Chicago Alleys (Center for American Places - Center Books on American Places)
by Bob Thall
Hardcover: 96 Pages (2002-11-01)
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In 1996, photographer Bob Thall—walking to his car after completing some work in downtown Chicago—was stopped by something. "I noticed this strange view down an alley," he later wrote. "It wasn't the type of photograph I was doing that year, but the scene stopped me. I had one sheet of film left and thought, 'Oh, what the hell,' and took the picture."

Thall didn't print that picture for over a year. He had just published the highly-praised The Perfect City, an investigation of the sweeping changes in downtown Chicago over a twenty-year period—and he was still working on The New American Village, a look at the new edge city around O'Hare Airport that stands in such contrast to the urbanity of downtown. That single alley photograph, however, would stay with him, and eventually it would inspire the project that led to this, his third book: City Spaces is an exploration of the terrain of Chicago's alleys, where Thall finds remnants of the old city that he, and many other Chicagoans, once found so compelling.

What these photographs transcribe are deep urban slits, afterthoughts to the gleaming modernist fronts of buildings. As Thall writes, "Investigating these spaces reminded me of my earlier sense of the city as a mysterious landscape to explore. My history as a Chicagoan, my history as a photographer, the history of the city, and, in a small way, the history of photography—without any plan or anticipation, these photographs brought these histories together for me." City Spaces will be a welcome addition to those interested in fine art photography, architecture, Chicago, and the urban scene—and will reinforce Bob Thall's presence as a leading artist and spokesperson for the city he loves.
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5-0 out of 5 stars my photo mentor!
Bob Thall happens to have been my Photo/Darkroom 1 teacher in college back in the late 80s. This gentleman is the bomb! Hey, I already got my grades, so I have absolutely nothing to gain here! Going into the class, I had, to put it mildly, a very poor eye for photography. I mean, anyone can use a camera. However Bob enabled me to acquire a real appreciation for photography as an art form, to the extent that I am still taking photographs, almost every day of my life, literally! In fact, I recommend to every serious student that I meet (I am still taking classes!) to enroll in a Photo/Darkroom 1 class with Bob Thall. He has helped imbue me with an artistic sense and keen eye that is helpful in any art class or artistic related endeavor. OK now about the book: It rocks! While some consider his work dry (he said it himself almost 20 years ago), if you take a close and careful look at every aspect of his work including content, composition, shooting, printing, etc., you may see what I see... Who else could make a photograph of a Chicago alley look so darn beautiful?!

5-0 out of 5 stars meticulous revelations, gorgeous results
Bob Thall has been making marvelous photographic books from marvelous big-camera photographs for more than a decade.He's also been systematically investigating the city of Chicago as a test case for the 21st century city.PERFECT CITY began by looking at the creative destruction of an architecturally significant and economically vibrant American urban downtown;THE NEW AMERICAN VILLAGE then looked at the new "urbanism" of what Joel Garreau has called the Edge Cities that have sprung up along the interstates and tollroads at a safe distance from the old metropolis.Now with CITY SPACES, he's tackling the newest phenomenon of American urbanism:the nostalgic return of downtowns as places to work, live,and be entertained.It's Thall's quirky intelligence at work that a collection of photographs of alleys could become a book about the resurgence of the old city, but that's what he shows us-- the way the city's encrustations of history, its graffiti, old signs, strange corners, odd spaces, and once-vibrant functional loading docks have become objects of nostalgic reverie, and Thall offers to be our guide in this visual treasure-hunt.This is a photographer of decidedly modernist sentiments.The play of subtle light on worn brick, the way mirror glass recedes deceptively into a non-existent, yet absurdly convincing surreal skyscape, the delight you feel as things line up into sensuous arrays when you stand precisely THERE and tilt your head like THIS and bend your knees oh-so-slightly:these are the matters of this book.Such visual sleight-of-sight requires superb printing to work in a book;luckily the Icelandic printers have labored with Nordic determination and the results are astonishing:blacks as smooth as velvet but still retaining a sense of detailed dark space; silvery sheens to steel, walls that crumble as you look at them. ... Read more


7. Time and Place in Joliet: Essays on the Geographical Evolution of the City (Studies on the Illinois & Michigan Canal corridor)
 Paperback: 151 Pages (1988-03)
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Isbn: 0890651337
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8. Shock Cities: The Environmental Transformation and Reform of Manchester and Chicago
by Harold L. Platt
Hardcover: 592 Pages (2005-05-22)
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Shock Cities is environmental history of the highest order.This searching work is the first trans-Atlantic study to examine the industrial city in holistic terms, looking at the transformation of its land, water, and air. Harold L. Platt demonstrates how the creation of industrial ecologies spurred the reorganization of urban areas into separate spheres, unhealthy slums in the center and garden estates in the suburbs. By comparing Chicago and Manchester, Platt also shows how the ruling classes managed the political creation of urban space to ensure financial gain—often to the environmental detriment of both regions.

Shock Cities also recasts the age of industry within a larger frame of nature.Frightening epidemics and unnatural "natural disasters" forced the city dwellers onto the path of environmental reform. Crusaders for social justice such as Chicago's Jane Addams and Manchester's Charles Rowley led class-bridging campaigns to clean up the slums. Women activists and other "municipal housekeepers" promoted regulations to reduce air pollution. Public health experts directed efforts to improve sanitation.

Out of these reform movements, the Progressives formulated new concepts of environmental conservation and regional planning. Comparing the two cities, Platt highlights the ways in which political culture and institutions act to turn social geography into physical shapes on the ground. This focus on the political formation of urban space helps illuminate questions of social and environmental justice. Shock Cities will be of enormous value to students of ecology, technology, urban planning, and public health in the Western world.
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9. City in Time: Chicago
by Ray Furse
Hardcover: 144 Pages (2007-11-01)
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Asin: 1402732996
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How did a settlement founded in a swamp become one of the world’s greatest metropolises in just 200 years? That’s what happened to Chicago, and perhaps its success is best summed up in the words of Daniel Burnham, architect and city planner: “Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.”  Watch the “Windy City” change and grow before your eyes in dramatic photos of its renowned treasures, past and present. Among the famous sights so evocatively presented are the renowned Art Institute, Soldier Field, Haymarket Square, the Water Tower, Wrigley Field, Navy Pier, and the Loop. Learn, also, how the city’s central location helped it expand economically; about Chicago’s great entrepreneurs and artists; and about Chicagoland food and sports.
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5-0 out of 5 stars Review of 'City In Time: Chicago'
This collection of photographs presents an excellent introduction to many of the big figures and moments in Chicago's history. It also presents a dazzling display of photographs from about one hundred landmarks in the city, both in historical photographs and modern color. Each page gives a bit of information on the landmark featured. There is just enough type to keep readers interested, but not so much as to discourage turning the page--this is essentially an adult's picture book.

5-0 out of 5 stars A Nice Pictorial History of the City of Chicago
This book combines history and photography. Many landmarks are featured, including the Art Institute, the museums, the Regenstein Library of the University of Chicago, the Sears Tower, Daley Center (formerly the Civic Center), Wrigley Field, and much more.

Chicago inventions are discussed, such as the Ferris wheel, the Chicago-style hot dog, the Hostess Twinkies, softball, etc. Besides, many "firsts" took place in Chicago, including the first man-made nuclear chain reaction in 1942.

Although Chicago is now the third largest city in the US, and is dwarfed by many urban complexes throughout the world, it still is ranked among the top "Alpha" 10 cities in the entire world in terms of its overall influence (p. 11).

A bibliography is provided for further reading about this exciting city.

5-0 out of 5 stars City of the Broad Shoulders
If you love Chicago, you'll love this book, especially if you are no longer near Chicago.
We have here 140 pages of pictures of Chicago landmarks, sorted into "then" on the left page and "now" on the right, accompanied by about a hundred words of caption explaining what you are looking at and why it is significant.All are landmarks of Chicago and include at least one spot everybody who has ever been there must have gone by, stared at, gone in, or admired.
As a graduate of Illinois Tech., I did catch one awful clinker.To have the building on page 109 (the original Old Main of Armour Institute of Technology) called Crown Hall (it is really about two blocks from there) must have had Mies van der Rohe spinning in his grave for at least a month. ... Read more


10. Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City
by Mary Pattillo
Paperback: 400 Pages (2008-09-01)
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In Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo—a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century—uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago’s North Kenwood–Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America.
           
There was a time when North Kenwood–Oakland was plagued by gangs, drugs, violence, and the font of poverty from which they sprang. But in the late 1980s, activists rose up to tackle the social problems that had plagued the area for decades. Black on the Block tells the remarkable story of how these residents laid the groundwork for a revitalized and self-consciously black neighborhood that continues to flourish today. But theirs is not a tale of easy consensus and political unity, and here Pattillo teases out the divergent class interests that have come to define black communities like North Kenwood–Oakland. She explores the often heated battles between haves and have-nots, home owners and apartment dwellers, and newcomers and old-timers as they clash over the social implications of gentrification. Along the way, Pattillo highlights the conflicted but crucial role that middle-class blacks play in transforming such districts as they negotiate between established centers of white economic and political power and the needs of their less fortunate black neighbors.
 
“A century from now, when today's sociologists and journalists are dust and their books are too, those who want to understand what the hell happened to Chicago will be finding the answer in this one.”—Chicago Reader
 
“To see how diversity creates strange and sometimes awkward bedfellows . . . turn to Mary Pattillo's Black on the Block.”—Boston Globe
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11. Chicago: Geography and Climate: An entry from Gale's <i>Cities of the United States</i>
 Digital: 1 Pages (2006)
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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 155 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more


12. Aurora: Geography and Climate: An entry from Gale's <i>Cities of the United States</i>
 Digital: 1 Pages (2006)
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This digital document is an article from Cities of the United States, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 114 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a wide range of hard-to-locate data to answer questions concerning American cities. Includes thorough coverage of the area's largest or fastest-growing cities, or those with a particular historical, political, industrial or commercial significance. ... Read more


13. Valley City, Illinois
Paperback: 114 Pages (2010-08-16)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valley City is a village in Pike County, Illinois, United States. The population was 14 at the 2000 census.According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.2 square miles (0.5 km²), of which, 0.2 square miles (0.5 km²) of it is land and 4.76% is water.As of the census of 2000, there were 14 people, 4 households, and 3 families residing in the village. The population density was 71.5 people per square mile (27.0/km²). There were 7 housing units at an average density of 35.7/sq mi (13.5/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 100.00% White. ... Read more


14. Granite City, Illinois
Paperback: 80 Pages (2010-08-10)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! GraniteCity is a city in Madison County, Illinois,United States, part of the Greater St. Louismetropolitan area. At the 2000 census, thepopulation was 31,301, with a total of about 67,000in the immediate area. Officially founded in 1896,Granite City was named by the Niedringhaus brotherswho established it as a steel making company townfor the manufacture of kitchen utensils made to looklike granite. Granite City is often simplycalled "Granite." ... Read more


15. Yates City, Illinois
 Paperback: 68 Pages (2010-08-21)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yates City is a village in Knox County, Illinois, United States. The population was 725 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Galesburg Micropolitan Statistical Area. As of the census of 2000, there were 725 people, 299 households, and 209 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,235.2 people per square mile (474.4/km²). There were 322 housing units at an average density of 548.6/sq mi (210.7/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 98.90% White, 0.41% African American, 0.14% Native American, 0.28% from other races, and 0.28% from two or more races. There were 299 households out of which 28.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 61.2% were married couples living together, 6.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 30.1% were non-families. 27.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the average family size was 2.95. ... Read more


16. Historic Nauvoo. A Descriptive Story of Nauvoo, Illinois... Its History, People, and Beauty (American Quest Series)
by Will Griffith and Katharine Griffith
 Hardcover: 40 Pages (1941)

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17. Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape
by Sally A. Kitt Chappell
Paperback: 300 Pages (2007-07-01)
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Chicago—whose motto is “City in a Garden”—is currently at the forefront of a global movement to end the division between town and country. In Chicago’s Urban Nature, Sally A. Kitt Chappell provides a beautifully illustrated guide to the city’s stunning blend of nature and architecture.

At the heart of this new urban concept is the idea of connection, bringing buildings and landscapes, culture and nature, commerce and leisure into an energetic harmony. With Chicago’s Urban Nature in hand, you’ll see those connections woven through the fabric of the city. Chappell provides new insights into such historic Chicago sites as Jens Jensen’s Garfield Park Conservatory, Frederick Law Olmsted’s Jackson Park, and Alfred Caldwell’s Lily Pond, then takes us to the innovative contemporary green spaces they influenced, from City Hall’s rooftop garden to the North Lawndale Green Youth Farm to Chicago’s heralded new Millennium Park. These beautiful green spaces, with their unprecedented melding of art, architecture, and ecology, have become far more than places of escape for Chicagoans—they’re now fully integrated into the urban scene, an essential part of the cultural life of the modern city.

Packed with maps and recommended tours, and bursting with splendid photos, this is an essential guidebook for day-trippers, lifelong Chicago residents, and professionals in landscape architecture, urbanism, and design.
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5-0 out of 5 stars A treasure for both Chicagoans and visitors
This is a rich book woven with many unexpected strands: gorgeous new photos and historic images; hidden places around the city alongside fresh insights on the familiar ones; maps and background pieces, along with captions and essays. It ambitiously considers both architecture and landscape, not simply as two related topics but as proof of the thesis that architecture and landscape uniquely merged in nineteenth-century Chicago. That merger is a dynamic process, and Chappell is unafraid to make contemporary observations. Note to Chicago's Olympic Committee: Here is Exhibit A for Chicago's status as a global city with long experience in welcoming the world. Even back in the 1980s, "I found members of nineteen different ethnic groups occupying a single acre [of Lincoln Park] on a warm summer day. When presenting my findings, I claimed that Lincoln Park had the greatest ethnic diversity of any park in Chicago. My colleague, Kenneth Fidel, a sociologist, later told me I had understated my case; I should have said 'in the world.'"

5-0 out of 5 stars A Small Jewel
This book is a small jewel, reflecting all the riches of Chicago's fusion of architecture and landscape, with beautiful photographs, useful
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18. Peter J. Kalliney. Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness.(Book review): An article from: Style
by Ryan Hibbett
 Digital: 4 Pages (2009-03-22)
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This digital document is an article from Style, published by Northern Illinois University on March 22, 2009. The length of the article is 1057 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Peter J. Kalliney. Cities of Affluence and Anger: A Literary Geography of Modern Englishness.(Book review)
Author: Ryan Hibbett
Publication: Style (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2009
Publisher: Northern Illinois University
Volume: 43Issue: 1Page: 132(3)

Article Type: Book review

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19. The Chicago Auditorium Building: Adler and Sullivan's Architecture and the City (Chicago Architecture and Urbanism)
by Joseph M. Siry
Hardcover: 580 Pages (2002-11-01)
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Winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award from the Society of Architectural Historians

When the magnificent Auditorium Building opened on Chicago's Michigan Avenue in December 1889, it marked Chicago's emergence both as the leading city of the Midwest and as a metropolis of international stature. In this lavishly illustrated book, Joseph M. Siry explores not just the architectural history of the Auditorium Building but also the crucial role it played in Chicago's social history. Covering the Auditorium from the early design stage to its opening, its later renovations, its links to culture and politics in Chicago, and its influence on later Adler and Sullivan works (including the Schiller Building and the Chicago Stock Exchange Building), this volume recounts the fascinating tale of a building that helped to define a city and an era.
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20. Northern Illinois: Chicago Metropolitan Area, Rockford, Illinois, Quad Cities, Golden Corridor, Illinois Technology and Research Corridor
Paperback: 200 Pages (2010-02-20)
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Asin: 6130456239
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Northern Illinois is a region generally covering the northern third of the U.S. state of Illinois. Northern Illinois is dominated by the metropolitan areas of Chicago, Rockford, and the Quad Cities, which contain a majority (over 75%) of Illinois' population and economic activity, including numerous Fortune 500 companies and a heavy manufacturing, commercial, retail, service, and office based economy. Much of the economic activity of the region is centered in the Chicago Loop, the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor, and the Golden Corridor. However, rural sections of this region are highly productive agriculturally, and are part of the Corn Belt. ... Read more


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