The Man-Made City: The Land-Use Confidence Game in Chicago

by Gerald D. Suttles

With its extraordinary uniform street grid, its magnificent lake-side park, and innovative architecture and public sculpture, Chicago is one of the most planned cities of the modern era. Yet over the past few decades Chicago has come to epitomize some of the worst evils of urban decay: widespread graft and corruption, political stalemates, troubled race relations, and economic decline. Broad-shouldered boosterism can no longer disguise the city's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226781933
• ISBN13: 9780226781938
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"