Chicago Transformed
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Download Chicago Transformed PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Chicago Transformed book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Chicago Transformed
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Joseph Gustaitis
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2016-07
Chicago Transformed written by Joseph Gustaitis and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07 with History categories.
14. "Taking New Heart": Organized Labor and the Postwar Strikes -- 15. "Eyes to the Future": Chicago in 1919 -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover
Chicago Muslims And The Transformation Of American Islam
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : S. Kaazim Naqvi
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-06-27
Chicago Muslims And The Transformation Of American Islam written by S. Kaazim Naqvi and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-27 with Social Science categories.
This book examines the evolution of the Chicago Muslim community from 1965–1980. The volume traces changes to immigration law, black politics, and governmental policy and the actions of Muslim groups advocating to transform American Islam from largely disparate ideological and cultural groups into a singular community.
Chicago From The Sky
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Lawrence Okrent
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Chicago From The Sky written by Lawrence Okrent and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Chicago (Ill.) categories.
A pictorial history, from an aerial perspective, for the far-reaching change that has occurred in Chicago and its region in the span of a single generation, between 1985 and 2010. It serves as a reminder that Chicago welcomes change, celebrates change and regards change as one of its distinguishing features.
Global Chicago
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Charles Madigan
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2004
Global Chicago written by Charles Madigan and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Business & Economics categories.
Once known for gangsters and meatpacking, Chicago was virtually synonymous with the rough and tumble side of the industrial era. Today, however, Chicago has outgrown even national prominence to become a truly global city--one of the most famous and most important in the world. Global Chicago is the first book to describe Chicago's transformation from industrial powerhouse to global metropolis. It will change the way both Chicagoans and the rest of the world view the city. Chicago has a long history of adaptation. Having gone from a swampy trading post to a major industrial center, Chicago also rebuilt itself in the wake of a devastating fire to become one of the world's great architectural showcases. While many former industrial centers became mere shadows of themselves, Chicago succeeded by transformed itself again. The Chicago of today is a hub for corporate headquarters like those of Motorola, Boeing, and United Airlines. It is a transportation and information crossroads, with the busiest airport in North America as well as the most internet traffic. With over 120 foreign language newspapers, it is also home to vast and vibrant immigrant communities, a focus of global services, and a center for global law and medicine. Essay authors include professors from top institutions, veteran journalists, experts on labor and government, and the presidents of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. By drawing on the expertise of the city's leading players, Global Chicago offers unique insights into the city's global assets and its economic, social, intellectual, and cultural links to the world as seen from an insider's perspective. Their essays probe deeply into the financial and governmental infrastructure crucial for success by reflecting on specific lessons to be learned from the example of worldwide Chicago businesses. Amidst the ruthless international competition that characterizes globalization, Chicago makes decisions today that will affect both its success and character for the coming century. Global Chicago serves simultaneously as a catalog of achievements that would make anyone proud to call the city home and a timely counsel for ensuring its future as a world leader.
Shock Cities
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Harold L. Platt
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2005-05-22
Shock Cities written by Harold L. Platt and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-22 with Architecture categories.
Publisher Description
Jazz Age Chicago Crucible Of Modern America
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Joseph Gustaitis
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2022
Jazz Age Chicago Crucible Of Modern America written by Joseph Gustaitis and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
"When people imagine 1920s Chicago, they usually (and justifiably) think of Al Capone, speakeasies, gang wars, flappers and flivvers. Yet this narrative overlooks the crucial role the Windy City played in the modernization of America. The city's incredible ethnic variety and massive building boom gave it unparalleled creative space, as design trends from Art Deco skyscrapers to streamlined household appliances reflected Chicago's unmistakable style. The emergence of mass media in the 1920s helped make professional sports a national obsession, even as Chicago radio stations were inventing the sitcom and the soap opera. Join Joseph Gustaitis as he chases the beat of America's Jazz Age back to its jazz capital."--Page 4 of cover.
Not By Genes Alone
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Peter J. Richerson
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-06-20
Not By Genes Alone written by Peter J. Richerson and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-20 with Social Science categories.
Humans are a striking anomaly in the natural world. While we are similar to other mammals in many ways, our behavior sets us apart. Our unparalleled ability to adapt has allowed us to occupy virtually every habitat on earth using an incredible variety of tools and subsistence techniques. Our societies are larger, more complex, and more cooperative than any other mammal's. In this stunning exploration of human adaptation, Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd argue that only a Darwinian theory of cultural evolution can explain these unique characteristics. Not by Genes Alone offers a radical interpretation of human evolution, arguing that our ecological dominance and our singular social systems stem from a psychology uniquely adapted to create complex culture. Richerson and Boyd illustrate here that culture is neither superorganic nor the handmaiden of the genes. Rather, it is essential to human adaptation, as much a part of human biology as bipedal locomotion. Drawing on work in the fields of anthropology, political science, sociology, and economics—and building their case with such fascinating examples as kayaks, corporations, clever knots, and yams that require twelve men to carry them—Richerson and Boyd convincingly demonstrate that culture and biology are inextricably linked, and they show us how to think about their interaction in a way that yields a richer understanding of human nature. In abandoning the nature-versus-nurture debate as fundamentally misconceived, Not by Genes Alone is a truly original and groundbreaking theory of the role of culture in evolution and a book to be reckoned with for generations to come. “I continue to be surprised by the number of educated people (many of them biologists) who think that offering explanations for human behavior in terms of culture somehow disproves the suggestion that human behavior can be explained in Darwinian evolutionary terms. Fortunately, we now have a book to which they may be directed for enlightenment . . . . It is a book full of good sense and the kinds of intellectual rigor and clarity of writing that we have come to expect from the Boyd/Richerson stable.”—Robin Dunbar, Nature “Not by Genes Alone is a valuable and very readable synthesis of a still embryonic but very important subject straddling the sciences and humanities.”—E. O. Wilson, Harvard University
Integrating The Inner City
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Robert J. Chaskin
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-11-13
Integrating The Inner City written by Robert J. Chaskin and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-13 with History categories.
The Chicago Housing Authority s Plan for Transformation repudiated the city s large-scale housing projects and the paradigm that produced them. The Plan seeks to normalize public housing and its tenants, eliminating physical, social, and economic barriers among populations that have long been segregated from one another. But is the Plan an ambitious example of urban regeneration or a not-so-veiled effort at gentrification? Is it resulting in integration or displacement? What kinds of communities are emerging from it? Chaskin and Joseph s book is the most thorough examination of the Plan to date. Drawing on five years of field research, in-depth interviews, and data, Chaskin and Joseph examine the actors, strategies, and processes involved in the Plan. Most important, they illuminate the Plan s limitations which has implications for urban regeneration strategies nationwide."
Cumulative List Of Organizations Described In Section 170 C Of The Internal Revenue Code Of 1954
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Cumulative List Of Organizations Described In Section 170 C Of The Internal Revenue Code Of 1954 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations categories.
New Deal Ruins
DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Edward G. Goetz
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-01
New Deal Ruins written by Edward G. Goetz and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with Political Science categories.
Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material support to families made destitute by the Great Depression, and it remained a major element of urban policy in subsequent decades. As chronicled in New Deal Ruins, however, housing policy since the 1990s has turned to the demolition of public housing in favor of subsidized units in mixed-income communities and the use of tenant-based vouchers rather than direct housing subsidies. While these policies, articulated in the HOPE VI program begun in 1992, aimed to improve the social and economic conditions of urban residents, the results have been quite different. As Edward G. Goetz shows, hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced and there has been a loss of more than 250,000 permanently affordable residential units. Goetz offers a critical analysis of the nationwide effort to dismantle public housing by focusing on the impact of policy changes in three cities: Atlanta, Chicago, and New Orleans. Goetz shows how this transformation is related to pressures of gentrification and the enduring influence of race in American cities. African Americans have been disproportionately affected by this policy shift; it is the cities in which public housing is most closely identified with minorities that have been the most aggressive in removing units. Goetz convincingly refutes myths about the supposed failure of public housing. He offers an evidence-based argument for renewed investment in public housing to accompany housing choice initiatives as a model for innovative and equitable housing policy.