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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 authors 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. Multi-faceted and authoritative, "The New Chicago" offers an important and unique portrait of an emergent and new 'Windy City'.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: New Chicago
• Subtitle: A Social and Cultural Analysis
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9781592130887
• ISBN: 1592130887
• ID: 05087125
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Weight: 671 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. September 2006

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