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Chicago's industrial decline : the failure of redevelopment, 1920-1975 / Robert Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Robert D., 1954- author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrialization--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- Industrialization.
- City planning--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- City planning.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource)
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- In this text, Robert Lewis charts the city's decline since the 1920s and describes the early development of Chicago's famed (and reviled) growth machine. Beginning in the 1940s, downtown business interest, financial institutions, and real estate groups, place-dependent organisations in Chicago implemented several industrial renewal initiatives with the dual purpose of stopping factory closings and attracting new firms in order to turn blighted property into modern industrial sites. At the same time, a more powerful coalition sought to adapt the urban fabric to appeal to middle-class consumption and residential living. As Lewis shows, the two aims were never well integrated, and the result was on-going disinvestment and the inexorable decline of Chicago's industrial space. By the 1950s, it was evident that the early incarnation of the growth machine had failed to maintain Chicago's economic centre in industry.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Visions of Chicago
- Industrial decline and the rise of the suburbs
- Building the suburban factory and industrial decline in postwar Chicago
- Blight and the transformation of industrial property
- Industrial property and blight in the 1950s
- Industrial renewal and land clearance
- Reinventing industrial property
- Industrial parks as industrial renewal
- Conclusion: It's all over now.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2021).
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781501752629
- 1501752626
- OCLC:
- 1147956351
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