Two Tales of a City: Rebuilding Chicago's Architectural and Social Landscape, 1986-2005
Autor Gail Satleren Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 aug 2006
Architecture creates a social world. The built environment structures and facilitates the functions of a city and interactions among human beings. Stores, restaurants, theaters, parks, offices, and apartment buildings—all are spaces where people encounter one another as they act out their daily lives. In this insightful study of Chicago’s new Central Area, Gail Satler illuminates the ways in which the renovations of the past two decades have reconfigured the social as well as the physical landscape.
Tracing the renovation process from concept to construction, Satler examines design plans and interviews officials and architects who envisioned a revitalized Central Area. Then she leads the reader on a tour of State Street, the Chicago River, and Millennium Park with stops at historic and recent landmarks. Along the way, she notes how the mixture of housing, retailing, business, and recreation fosters diverse uses of urban space. At the same time, by drawing from marginal areas and welcoming a diversity of users, the Central Area expands the Chicago community.
As Satler so clearly documents, architecture embodies ideology and social relationships. For this reason, it also offers potential for reforming the life of a city. Satler’s work is creative and cutting edge, but in this personable, illustrated book, she gently encourages readers to notice architecture and the ways in which it shapes their own world.
Tracing the renovation process from concept to construction, Satler examines design plans and interviews officials and architects who envisioned a revitalized Central Area. Then she leads the reader on a tour of State Street, the Chicago River, and Millennium Park with stops at historic and recent landmarks. Along the way, she notes how the mixture of housing, retailing, business, and recreation fosters diverse uses of urban space. At the same time, by drawing from marginal areas and welcoming a diversity of users, the Central Area expands the Chicago community.
As Satler so clearly documents, architecture embodies ideology and social relationships. For this reason, it also offers potential for reforming the life of a city. Satler’s work is creative and cutting edge, but in this personable, illustrated book, she gently encourages readers to notice architecture and the ways in which it shapes their own world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780875803579
ISBN-10: 0875803571
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 20 mm
Greutate: 1.1 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northern Illinois University Press
Colecția Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN-10: 0875803571
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 216 x 279 x 20 mm
Greutate: 1.1 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northern Illinois University Press
Colecția Northern Illinois University Press
Recenzii
“a Coffee-table book that aims to make an argument.”—Indiana Magazine of History
“Gail Satler’s study of architecture and the ways in which architecture impacts the human experience is unique.”—Keith Mendenhall, Gehry Partners
"As a guide to Chicago's recent urban transformation, Satler's book is indispensable."—Michigan Historical Review
“Gail Satler’s study of architecture and the ways in which architecture impacts the human experience is unique.”—Keith Mendenhall, Gehry Partners
"As a guide to Chicago's recent urban transformation, Satler's book is indispensable."—Michigan Historical Review
Notă biografică
Gail Satler is Professor of Sociology at Hofstra University and author of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Living Space.
Cuprins
Table of Contents
Foreword by Lee Bey
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction—The Question of Centrality
I—REINSTATING STATE STREET
1—The Vision Plan
2—Taking It to the Street—Observations and Reflections
II—THE RIVERFRONT
3—(Re)turning to the River
4—Going with the Flow—A Walk along the Riverfront
III—MILLENIUM PARK (1999–2004)
5—(Re)creation
IV—REALIGNING CENTER AND PERIPHERIES
6—Branching Out—From Center to Peripheries
7—Reaching In—From Peripheries to Center
Conclusion—Checagou, Chicago, Chicagoland—Reimaging an Unfolding City
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction—The Question of Centrality
I—REINSTATING STATE STREET
1—The Vision Plan
2—Taking It to the Street—Observations and Reflections
II—THE RIVERFRONT
3—(Re)turning to the River
4—Going with the Flow—A Walk along the Riverfront
III—MILLENIUM PARK (1999–2004)
5—(Re)creation
IV—REALIGNING CENTER AND PERIPHERIES
6—Branching Out—From Center to Peripheries
7—Reaching In—From Peripheries to Center
Conclusion—Checagou, Chicago, Chicagoland—Reimaging an Unfolding City
Selected Bibliography
Index
Descriere
Architecture creates a social world. The built environment structures and facilitates the functions of a city and interactions among human beings. Stores, restaurants, theaters, parks, offices, and apartment buildings—all are spaces where people encounter one another as they act out their daily lives. In this insightful study of Chicago’s new Central Area, Gail Satler illuminates the ways in which the renovations of the past two decades have reconfigured the social as well as the physical landscape.
Tracing the renovation process from concept to construction, Satler examines design plans and interviews officials and architects who envisioned a revitalized Central Area. Then she leads the reader on a tour of State Street, the Chicago River, and Millennium Park with stops at historic and recent landmarks. Along the way, she notes how the mixture of housing, retailing, business, and recreation fosters diverse uses of urban space. At the same time, by drawing from marginal areas and welcoming a diversity of users, the Central Area expands the Chicago community.
As Satler so clearly documents, architecture embodies ideology and social relationships. For this reason, it also offers potential for reforming the life of a city. Satler’s work is creative and cutting edge, but in this personable, illustrated book, she gently encourages readers to notice architecture and the ways in which it shapes their own world.
Tracing the renovation process from concept to construction, Satler examines design plans and interviews officials and architects who envisioned a revitalized Central Area. Then she leads the reader on a tour of State Street, the Chicago River, and Millennium Park with stops at historic and recent landmarks. Along the way, she notes how the mixture of housing, retailing, business, and recreation fosters diverse uses of urban space. At the same time, by drawing from marginal areas and welcoming a diversity of users, the Central Area expands the Chicago community.
As Satler so clearly documents, architecture embodies ideology and social relationships. For this reason, it also offers potential for reforming the life of a city. Satler’s work is creative and cutting edge, but in this personable, illustrated book, she gently encourages readers to notice architecture and the ways in which it shapes their own world.