Bulls Markets

Sean Dinces

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• An unvarnished look at the economic and political choices that reshaped contemporary Chicago--arguably for the worse. ​ The 1990s were a glorious time... Lees meer

A World More Concrete

N D B Connolly

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for reshapin... Lees meer

Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877

David O Stowell

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• For one week in late July of 1877, America shook with anger and fear as a variety of urban residents, mostly working class, attacked railroad property... Lees meer

City of American Dreams

Margaret Garb

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home... Lees meer

Newsprint Metropolis

Julia Guarneri

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• At the turn of the twentieth century, ambitious publishers like Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and Robert McCormick produced the most spect... Lees meer

The Menace of Prosperity

Daniel Wortel-London

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined--or constrained--by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, act... Lees meer

Nonprofit Neighborhoods

Claire Dunning

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• An exploration of how and why American city governments delegated the responsibility for solving urban inequality to the nonprofit sector. Nonprofits ... Lees meer

Blueprint for Disaster

D Bradford Hunt

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• Blueprint for Disaster traces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley's Plan for Transforma... Lees meer

Building the South Side

Robin Faith Bachin

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• Building the South Side explores the struggle for influence that dominated the planning and development of Chicago's South Side during the Progressive... Lees meer

The Gateway to the Pacific

Meredith Oda

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco's identity as the "Gateway to the Pacific," usin... Lees meer

Building the Metropolis

Alexander Wood

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• A sweeping history of New York that chronicles the construction of one of the world's great cities. Between the 1880s and the 1930s, New York City exp... Lees meer

Steam City

David Schley

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new v... Lees meer

The Menace of Prosperity

Daniel Wortel-London

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• Upends entrenched thinking about cities, demonstrating how urban economies are defined--or constrained--by the fiscal imagination of policymakers, act... Lees meer

Making the Second Ghetto

Arnold R Hirsch

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• First published in 1983 and praised by the likes of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Thomas Sugrue, Arnold R. Hirsch's Making the Second Ghetto is the rare book t... Lees meer

Slumming

Chad Heap

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• During Prohibition, "Harlem was the 'in' place to go for music and booze," recalled the African American chanteuse Bricktop. "Every night the limousin... Lees meer

The Cycling City

Evan Friss

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• Cycling has experienced a renaissance in the United States, as cities around the country promote the bicycle as an alternative means of transportation... Lees meer

Block by Block

Amanda I Seligman

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• In the decades following World War II, cities across the United States saw an influx of African American families into otherwise homogeneously white a... Lees meer

Crossing Parish Boundaries

Timothy B Neary

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• Controversy erupted in spring 2001 when Chicago's mostly white Southside Catholic Conference youth sports league rejected the application of the predo... Lees meer

Brown in the Windy City

Lilia Fernández

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• Brown in the Windy City is the first history to examine the migration and settlement of Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in postwar Chicago. Lilia Fernández... Lees meer

Chicago's Block Clubs

Amanda I Seligman

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you're tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keep... Lees meer

Urban Appetites

Cindy R Lobel

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• Glossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you'd better believe there's an app (or ten) committed to finding you the... Lees meer

Sun Ra's Chicago

William Sites

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• Sun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances ... Lees meer

Sun Ra's Chicago

William Sites

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• Sun Ra (1914-93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances ... Lees meer

Metropolitan Latinidad

• Paperback | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• A wide-ranging collection of essays that centers Latinos in the history of American cities and suburbs. Latino urban history has been underappreciated... Lees meer