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Liquid Capital : Making the Chicago Waterfront.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American Business, Politics, and Society SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (241 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812294583
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Liquid CapitalDDC classification:
  • 304.2097731109034
LOC classification:
  • HT168.C5 .S25 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. State Power and the Rise of Chicago -- Chapter 1. Making a River Run Through It -- Chapter 2. The Legal Construction of Free Marketplaces -- Chapter 3. The Creative Destruction of the Chicago River Harbor -- Chapter 4. Beauty and the Crisis of Commercial Civilization -- Chapter 5. A Public Pier for Pleasure and Profit -- Epilogue. A Waterscape for the New Millennium -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: In the nineteenth century, politicians transformed a disease-infested bog on the shore of Lake Michigan into an intensely managed waterscape supporting the life and economy of Chicago. Liquid Capital shows how Chicago's waterfront became both an economic hub and the site of many precedent-setting decisions about public land use.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. State Power and the Rise of Chicago -- Chapter 1. Making a River Run Through It -- Chapter 2. The Legal Construction of Free Marketplaces -- Chapter 3. The Creative Destruction of the Chicago River Harbor -- Chapter 4. Beauty and the Crisis of Commercial Civilization -- Chapter 5. A Public Pier for Pleasure and Profit -- Epilogue. A Waterscape for the New Millennium -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.

In the nineteenth century, politicians transformed a disease-infested bog on the shore of Lake Michigan into an intensely managed waterscape supporting the life and economy of Chicago. Liquid Capital shows how Chicago's waterfront became both an economic hub and the site of many precedent-setting decisions about public land use.

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