The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism by Bennett, Larry
The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism by Bennett, Larry

The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism

Our traditional image of Chicago--as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of...
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Author: Larry Bennett
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The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism by Bennett, Larry

The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism

$204.16
The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism by Bennett, Larry

The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism

$204.16
Author: Larry Bennett
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 Sandburg, Daniel Burnham, Robert Park, Sara Paretsky, and Mike Royko--with the goal of better understanding Chicago as it is now: the third city.

Bennett calls contemporary Chicago the third city to distinguish it from its two predecessors: the first city, a sprawling industrial center whose historical arc ran from the Civil War to the Great Depression; and the second city, the Rustbelt exemplar of the period from around 1950 to 1990. The third city features a dramatically revitalized urban core, a shifting population mix that includes new immigrant streams, and a growing number of middle-class professionals working in new economy sectors. It is also a city utterly transformed by the top-to-bottom reconstruction of public housing developments and the ambitious provision of public works like Millennium Park. It is, according to Bennett, a work in progress spearheaded by Richard M. Daley, a self-consciously innovative mayor whose strategy of neighborhood revitalization and urban renewal is a prototype of city governance for the twenty-first century. The Third City ultimately contends that to understand Chicago under Daley's charge is to understand what metropolitan life across North America may well look like in the coming decades.

Author: Larry Bennett
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 09/18/2015
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780226323794

About the Author

Larry Bennett is professor of political science at DePaul University. He is the author and coauthor of numerous books, including Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Politics: Chicago and Sheffield, and It's Hardly Sportin' Stadiums, Neighborhoods, and the New Chicago.


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