City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of AmericaSimon & Schuster, 1996 - 704 من الصفحات Thoroughly researched and magnificently written, City of the Century captures all the drama of Chicago's growth from a desolate fur-trading post in the 1830s to a metropolis that by 1890 rivaled New York City. "Brims with life, with people, surprises, and with stories--and stories within stories--all worth telling."--David McCullough, author of Truman. of photos. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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... built two of his biggest subdivisions near Hum- boldt and Garfield Parks on the West Side . In no other American city did the creation of public parks play a greater role in encouraging sub- urban development than in Chicago . In 1849 ...
... built two of his biggest subdivisions near Hum- boldt and Garfield Parks on the West Side . In no other American city did the creation of public parks play a greater role in encouraging sub- urban development than in Chicago . In 1849 ...
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... built offices in the air on the city's grid for the production part of the capitalists ' day ; Olmsted built for them an exclusive escape from the burdens of running these gigantic enterprises . Rested and re- charged , Chicago's ...
... built offices in the air on the city's grid for the production part of the capitalists ' day ; Olmsted built for them an exclusive escape from the burdens of running these gigantic enterprises . Rested and re- charged , Chicago's ...
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... built almost instanta- neously after the fire by the architects who had built the old Chicago " and who took even less thought the second time than they had the first , " Montgomery Schuyler wrote , " by reason of the greater pressure ...
... built almost instanta- neously after the fire by the architects who had built the old Chicago " and who took even less thought the second time than they had the first , " Montgomery Schuyler wrote , " by reason of the greater pressure ...
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Preface | 15 |
City of Dreamers and Doers | 24 |
Didnt Expect No Town | 48 |
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