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Author:

Cremin, Dennis H.

Title:

Grant Park : the evolution of Chicago's front yard / Dennis H. Cremin.

Publisher:

Southern Illinois University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xv, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Subject:

Grant Park (Chicago, Ill.)--History.
Chicago (Ill.)--History.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social life and customs.
Social change--Chicago--Chicago--History.
City planning--Chicago--Chicago--History.
Community development--Chicago--Chicago--History.
Landscape architecture--Chicago--Chicago--History.
Chicago (Ill.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Urban parks--United States--Case studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 211-222) and index.

Contents:

Early Park History : Lake, Land, and Place -- Lake Park : A Cultural and Civic Center -- The World's Columbian Exposition and Chicago's Cultural Flowering -- Making the White City Permanent -- The New Design -- Gateway and Cultural Center : From A Century of Progress to Postwar Park -- Parking Lots, Protests, and Mayhem : Grant Park in the Daley Era -- The Park Reenvisioned and Renewed.

Summary:

"In 1836, only three years after Chicago was founded, Chicagoans set aside the first narrow shoreline as public ground and declared it "forever open, clear, and free." Chicago historian and author Dennis H. Cremin reveals that despite such intent, the transformation of Grant Park to the spectacular park it is more than 175 years later was a gradual process, at first fraught with a lack of funding and organization, and later challenged by erosion, the railroads, automobiles, and a continued battle between original intent and conceptions of progress"--Page 2 of jacket.

ISBN:

0809332507 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780809332502 (cloth : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)797334865

LCCN:

2012038099

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)