Chicago's Industrial Decline (eBook)

The Failure of Redevelopment, 1920–1975

Robert Lewis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
272 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5263-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In Chicago's Industrial Decline 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 and led by local politicians, downtown business interest, financial institutions, and real estate groups, place-dependent organizations 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, Lewis argues, it was evident that the early incarnation of the growth machine had failed to maintain Chicago's economic center in industry. Although larger economic and social forces—specifically, competition for business and for residential development from the suburbs in the Chicagoland region and across the whole United States—played a role in the city's industrial decline, Lewis stresses the deep incoherence of post-WWII economic policy and urban planning that hoped to square the circle by supporting both heavy industry and middle- to upper-class amenities in downtown Chicago.

Autor

Robert Lewis is Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Chicago Made, Calculating Property Relations, and Manufacturing Montreal.

Inhalt

Introduction: Visions of Chicago
1. Industrial Decline and the Rise of the Suburbs
2. Building the Suburban Factory and Industrial Decline in Postwar Chicago
3. Blight and the Transformation of Industrial Property
4. Industrial Property and Blight in the 1950s
5. Industrial Renewal and Land Clearance
6. Reinventing Industrial Property
7. Industrial Parks as Industrial Renewal
Conclusion: It's All Over Now

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 13 b&w halftones, 1 map
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Urban redevelopment in Chicago, Industrial decline and central-city job loss, Growth coalitions and urban renewa, Industrial property relations and public-private interaction, industrial suburbanization
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-5263-4 / 1501752634
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-5263-6 / 9781501752636