Grant Park : the evolution of Chicago's front yard / Dennis H. Cremin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cremin, Dennis H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban parks.

Landscape architecture.

History.

Community development.

City planning.

Social change.

Grant Park (Chicago, Ill.)--History.

Grant Park (Chicago, Ill.).

Chicago (Ill.)--History.

Chicago (Ill.).

Chicago (Ill.)--Social life and customs.

Social change--Illinois--Chicago--History.

City planning--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Community development--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Landscape architecture--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Chicago (Ill.)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Urban parks--United States--Case studies.

United States.

Illinois--Chicago.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xv, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2013]

Summary:

"In 1836, only three years after Chicago was founded, Chicagoans set aside the first narrow shoreline as public ground and declared it "forever open, clear, and free." Chicago historian and author Dennis H. Cremin reveals that despite such intent, the transformation of Grant Park to the spectacular park it is more than 175 years later was a gradual process, at first fraught with a lack of funding and organization, and later challenged by erosion, the railroads, automobiles, and a continued battle between original intent and conceptions of progress"--Page 2 of jacket.

Contents:

Early Park History : Lake, Land, and Place

Lake Park : A Cultural and Civic Center

The World's Columbian Exposition and Chicago's Cultural Flowering

Making the White City Permanent

The New Design

Gateway and Cultural Center : From A Century of Progress to Postwar Park

Parking Lots, Protests, and Mayhem : Grant Park in the Daley Era

The Park Reenvisioned and Renewed.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780809332502

0809332507

OCLC:

797334865