The Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago: A History of Our Future

The Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago: A History of Our Future
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â€œYou expect the city of Al Capone and what you find are pleasant boulevards coursing up and down between the neo-classical buildings of the 1893 Universal Exhibition ... The city center unfolds before you, an architectural miracle that is to twentieth-century urban planning what Venice must have been for the fifteenth century.â€

Like a cross between Philip Marlowe and Walter Benjamin, Marco dâ€™Eramo stalks the streets of Chicago, leaving no myth unturned. Maintaining a Europeanâ€™s detached gaze, he slowly comes to recognize the familiar stink of modernity that blows across the Windy City, the origins of whose greatness (the slaughterhouses, the railroads, the lumber and cereal-crop trades) are by now ancient history, and where what rears its head today is already scheduled for tomorrowâ€™s chopping block. Chicago has been the stage for some of modernityâ€™s key episodes: the birth of the skyscraper, the rise of urban sociology, the worldâ€™s first atomic reactor, the hard-nosed monetarism of the Chicago School. Here in this postmodern Babel, where the contradictions of American society are writ large, dâ€™Eramo bears witness to the revolutionary, subversive power of capitalism at its purest.
Country USA
Brand Verso
Manufacturer Verso Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 8 b&w photographs
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2003-10-17
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781859844984

Country	USA
Brand	Verso
Manufacturer	Verso Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	8 b&w photographs
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2003-10-17
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781859844984

The Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago: A History of Our Future

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