Perfect cities
Chicago's utopias of 1893
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Author
Publication
1991 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
69,750 words, Guess
Page Count
279 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1887034M
- ISBN-100226293173
- OCLC Control Number22452582
- OCLC Control Numberperfectcitieschi0000gilb
- Library of Congress Control Number90048235
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- Goodreads3860656
- LibraryThing177031
Classifications
- DDC977.3/11041
- LCCF545 .G43 1991
Description
In this elegant and sensitive look at the milieu of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, James Gilbert examines the three utopias that were designed to bring order to the chaos of urban The World's Fair itself, George Pullman's community for his workers, and Dwight Moody's evangelical crusade. Gilbert draws upon a rich selection of fiction, collective biography, architecture, photographs, and souvenir books to show how these experiments each acted as a middle-class prescription for coming to terms with the new cultural diversity and competition resulting from the disruptive forces of technological change, commercial enterprise, and pluralism.
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