Constructing Chicago

Combining architectural history and cultural analysis, Bluestone explores the creation of Chicago's architectural landscape. He finds that the structure of the city was influenced as much by the moral, cultural and aesthetic aspirations of its local elite, as by the forces of commerce and capital.

  • OCLC #: 23462143
  • ISBN #:
    • 0300048483
    • 9780300048483
    • 0300057504
    • 9780300057508
  • Call #: NA9127.C4B48 1991
  • Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1991.
  • Physical Description: 235 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm
  • Contents:
    • "A cordon of verdure": gardens, parks, and cultivation, 1830-1869
    • "A different style of beauty": park designs, 1865-1880
    • "A parallel moral power": churches, 1830-1895
    • "A city under one roof": skyscrapers, 1880-1895
    • "Less of pork and more of culture": civic and cultural Chicago, 1850-1905
    • "The keystone of the arch": the civic lakefront, 1890-1909.
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