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- The New Chicago: A Social and Cultural Analysis
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: Temple University Press
summary
For generations, visitors, journalists, and social scientists alike have asserted that Chicago is the quintessentially American city. Indeed, the introduction to The New Chicago reminds us that "to know America, you must know Chicago." The contributors boldly announce the demise of the city of broad shoulders and the transformation of its physical, social, cultural, and economic institutions into a new Chicago. In this wide-ranging book, twenty scholars, journalists, and activists, relying on data from the 2000 census and many years of direct experience with the city, identify five converging forces in American urbanization which are reshaping this storied metropolis. The twenty-six essays included here analyze Chicago by way of globalization and its impact on the contemporary city; economic restructuring; the evolution of machine-style politics into managerial politics; physical transformations of the central city and its suburbs; and race relations in a multicultural era. In elaborating on the effects of these broad forces, contributors detail the role of eight significant racial, ethnic, and immigrant communities in shaping the character of the new Chicago and present ten case studies of innovative governmental, grassroots, and civic action. Multifaceted and authoritative, The New Chicago offers an important and unique portrait of an emergent and new "Windy City."
Table of Contents
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- Part I: Introduction
- 1. An Overview and Point of View
- pp. 3-16
- Part II: Converging Forces
- 4. Chicago’s New Politics of Growth
- pp. 44-55
- Part III: The Immigrant Presence
- 8. Latinos of the New Chicago
- pp. 105-114
- 9. New Chicago Polonia: Urban and Suburban
- pp. 115-127
- 10. Asian Indians in Chicago
- pp. 128-140
- 12. The Korean Presence in Chicago
- pp. 154-167
- 14. Immigrants from the Arab World
- pp. 182-196
- 15. Immigrants at Work
- pp. 197-210
- Part IV: Contested Reinvention and Civic Agency: Ten Case Studies
- 17. Devon Avenue: A World Market
- pp. 221-230
- 22. Transforming Public Housing
- pp. 269-276
- Part V: Conclusion
- 26. Learning from Chicago
- pp. 305-318
- References
- pp. 319-340
- About the Contributors
- pp. 341-342
Additional Information
ISBN
9781592137725
Related ISBN(s)
9781592130870, 9781592130887
MARC Record
OCLC
568211951
Pages
365
Launched on MUSE
2012-06-26
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2006