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Chicago (Ill.).
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Church buildings --- Synagogues --- Chicago (Ill.) --- Chicago (Ill.)
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Open space / by Ante Glibota -- 150 years of architecture: a history of the city / by Frederic Edelmann -- The time of the pioneers 1833-1910. The first city ; 1871: the great fire ; Reconstruction ; The Chicago school -- expansion ; 1893: the Columbian Exposition ; The Chicago school -- maturity and reactions ; The Chicago school -- last lights ; Returning to the origins of modern architecture / by Francois Hebert-Stevens ; William Le Baron Jenney ; Daniel Burnham ; Louis Sullivan -- Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School. A Ruskinian pioneer / by Andre Fermigier ; Frank Lloyd Wright -- From historicism to modernism 1910-1969. 1910-1921: indecisions ; 1922: the Chicago Tribune competition ; 1922-1932: before the crash ; 1933: the "Century of Progress" exposition ; Waiting for Mies ; Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe ; Mies and his followers ; The sixties -- Trends 1970-1983. Firms and divergences / by Ante Glibota ; Bertrand Goldberg ; Does the architect have a philosophy? / by Bertrand Goldberg ; The transgression / by Francois Hebert-Stevens ; Helmut Jahn ; Towards a new synthesis / by Helmut Jahn ; Helmut Jahn, or total architecture / by Wojciech Madeyski ; Creative coherence / by Benoit Jullien ; Walter A. Netsch ; Field theory / by Walter A. Netsch ; A lyrical method / by Gilles Plazy ; Harry Weese ; A word about architecture / by Harry Weese ; The purism of freedom / by Michel Ragon -- The city: realities. Around the Loop ; Housing ; Monuments to faith ; Sculpture and space ; Signs of transportation ; Restorations ; Evolutions ; Before and after ; A touch of humanity ; Maps and statistics ; Chicago landmarks ; Biographies ; Synoptic chart.
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"In his magisterial Great American City, Robert J. Sampson puts social scientific data behind an argument that we all feel and experience everyday: the neighborhood you live in has a big effect on your life and the city you live in. Not only does your neighborhood determine where your nearest hospital is, what kind of schools your children can attend, or how many police officers you might encounter (and how they respond to you), it affects how you feel, how you think about the world and your place in it. Like many sociologists before him, Sampson looks to Chicago to make his insightful interventions, based on extensive data collected across the city's diverse neighborhoods. This edition includes a new afterword by Sampson reflecting on changes in Chicago and the country that have occurred since the book was initially published. He notes the increase in gun violence, both among civilians and police killings of civilians, as well as steady or growing rates of segregation despite an increase in diversity. With these changes have come new research, much of it a continuation or elaboration of the work in Great American City. He updates readers on the status of the research initiative that serves as the basis of Great American City, the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN), and summarizes how scholars have taken up his work. Many of these scholars have new tools at their disposal with the rise of big data; Sampson remarks on these changes in the field"--
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