The Hyde Park-Kenwood Urban Renewal Years
Author : Muriel Beadle
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
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Author : Muriel Beadle
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
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Author : Susan O'Connor Davis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226925196
Stretching south from 47th Street to the Midway Plaisance and east from Washington Park to the lake’s shore, the historic neighborhood of Hyde Park—Kenwood covers nearly two square miles of Chicago’s south side. At one time a wealthy township outside of the city, this neighborhood has been home to Chicago’s elite for more than one hundred and fifty years, counting among its residents presidents and politicians, scholars, athletes, and fiery religious leaders. Known today for the grand mansions, stately row houses, and elegant apartments that these notables called home, Hyde Park—Kenwood is still one of Chicago’s most prominent locales. Physically shaped by the Columbian Exposition of 1893 and by the efforts of some of the greatest architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—including Daniel Burnham, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe—this area hosts some of the city’s most spectacular architecture amid lush green space. Tree-lined streets give way to the impressive neogothic buildings that mark the campus of the University of Chicago, and some of the Jazz Age’s swankiest high-rises offer spectacular views of the water and distant downtown skyline. In Chicago’s Historic Hyde Park, Susan O’Connor Davis offers readers a biography of this distinguished neighborhood, from house to home, and from architect to resident. Along the way, she weaves a fascinating tapestry, describing Hyde Park—Kenwood’s most celebrated structures from the time of Lincoln through the racial upheaval and destructive urban renewal of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s into the preservationist movement of the last thirty-five years. Coupled with hundreds of historical photographs, drawings, and current views, Davis recounts the life stories of these gorgeous buildings—and of the astounding talents that built them. This is architectural history at its best.
Author : Daniel Kay Hertz
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1948742101
"A brief, cogent analysis of gentrification in Chicago ... an incisive and useful narrative on the puzzle of urban development."-- Kirkus Reviews In the years after World War II, a movement began to bring the m
Author : Susan O'Connor Davis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 21,73 MB
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226138143
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-459) and index.
Author : Max Grinnell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738518930
Since the early twentieth century, Hyde Park has been known as a refuge and incubator for intellectuals, artists, novelists, poets, and free thinkers. Its best known institution, the University of Chicago, drew many of these persons close to its boundaries with the promise of a steady diet of conflicting ideas and lofty conversations. Throughout the first few decades of the twentieth century, Hyde Park went through a steady period of growth, both in residents and the construction of a dense network of walk-up apartment buildings and commercial facilities that offered a stark contrast to the more bucolic atmosphere of Hyde Park before the Columbian Exposition of 1893. By the late 1940s, parts of Hyde Park were showing signs of blight, as the area continued to house larger numbers of migrants from other depressed areas of the United States and programs of deferred or nonexistent maintenance began to have irreversible effects on the built environment. Images of America: Hyde Park, Illinois, focuses most of its attention on the period after World War II, all the way through the creation of the Hyde Park-Kenwood Urban Renewal Project, the first major urban renewal project in the United States.
Author : LaDale C. Winling
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0812249682
Building the Ivory Tower examines the role of American universities as urban developers and their changing effects on cities in the twentieth century. LaDale C. Winling explores philanthropy, real estate investments, architectural landscapes, and urban politics to reckon with the tensions of university growth in our cities.
Author : National Housing Center (U.S.). Library
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 1965
Category : City planning
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Author : John Mark Hansen
Publisher :
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Hyde Park (Chicago, Ill.)
ISBN : 9781647130817
Author : Davarian L Baldwin
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1568588917
Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee No. 4
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 1965
Category : City planning and redevelopment law
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