Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place

by Tim Cresswell

What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago's iconic Maxwell Street Market area. Maxwell Street was for decades a place where people from all corners of the city mingled to buy and sell goods, play and listen to the blues, and encounter new foods and cultures. Now, redeveloped and renamed University Village, it could hardly be more different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022660425X
• ISBN13: 9780226604251
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.9" x 9.9"