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The Third City (Paperback)
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The Third City (Paperback)
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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.
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