Building the City of Spectacle - Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Remaking of Chicago

Klappentext Costas Spirou is Professor and Chair of the Department of Government and Sociology at Georgia College & State University. He is the author of Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy and coauthor of It¿s Hardly Sportin¿: Stadiums, Neighborhoods and the New Chicago. Dennis R. Judd is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is coauthor of Restructuring the City: The Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment and coeditor most recently of The City, Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. Zusammenfassung Richard M. Daley, Chicago's longest-serving mayor, led a period of economic restructuring after the post–World War II urban crisis by building a vibrant tourist economy. This book focuses on his role in transforming Chicago’s economy and urban culture.

Product details

• Authors: Dennis R. Judd, Costas Spirou, Costas Judd Spirou
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2016
• EAN: 9781501700477
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-0047-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous