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In this volume the authors tell the real stories of the planners, politicians, and everyday people who shaped contemporary Chicago, starting in 1958, early in the Richard J. Daley era. Over the ensuing decades, planning did much to develop the Loop, protect Chicago's famous lakefront, and encourage industrial growth and neighborhood development in the face of national trends that savaged other cities. But planning also failed some of Chicago's communities and did too little for others. The Second City is no longer defined by its past and its myths but by the nature of its emerging postindustrial future. This volume looks beyond Burnham's giant shadow to see the sprawl and scramble of a city always on the make. This isn't the way other history books tell the story. But it's the Chicago way.

The authors tell the stories of the planners, politicians, and everyday people who shaped Chicago, starting in 1958, early in the RIchard J. Daley era. This isn't the way other history books tell the story. But it's the Chicago way.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Part 1: Introduction

Chapter 1: Planning the Chicago Way

Chapter 2: Chicago's Planning Context

Part 2: Chicago's Central Area

Chapter 3: The Origins of Chicago's Postindustrial City: Planning Change, 1955-1958

Chapter 4: The High-water Mark of City-led Planning: The 1966 Comprehensive Plan

Chapter 5: The Growth Coalition Takes the Lead for Planning

Chapter 6: Chicago's Equity Planning Moment

Chapter 7: Planning in the Void: Redevelopment in the North Loop and Near South

Preservation and Historic Districts

Part 3: Neighborhood Change and Planning Response

Chapter 8: Chicago and Community Planning Innovation

Saving Historic Pullman

Citizen Planning in Chicago

Chapter 9: Englewood

Chapter 10: Uptown

Chapter 11: Little Village

Chapter 12: Remaking Public Housing: The Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for Transformation

Homeless in Chicago

Part 4: Industrial Policy in Chicago: City Planning for Industrial Retention and Growth

Chapter 13: Defending the Industrial Base: Sector and District Strategies

Urban Industrial Redevelopment on Goose Island

Chapter 14: A Changing Employment Scene

Chapter 15: The Calumet District: Planning for Brownfields

Calumet: Industry and Nature Working Together

Chapter 16: Planning for Global Freight in the Chicago Region

Part 5: Chicago in the Current Era

Chapter 17: The Tourist City: Navy Pier, McCormick Place, and Millennium Park

Chapter 18: The Era of Big Plans Is Over

The Retail Revival in and Around the Loop

Union Station Master Plan

Chapter 19: The Disconnect Between Financing and Planning

Chapter 20: Positive Middle-Range Planning

Chapter 21: The Lost Decade

Boeing Comes to Chicago

Chapter 22: Conclusion: Restore Planning to Chicago.

Appendix A: Planning Departments and Leadership, City of Chicago, 1958-2013

Appendix B: Selected List of Plans and Reports, 1957-2012

Appendix C: Industrial Employment Tables

Endnotes

Notes on Interviews

Credits

Index

About the Authors.

City planning > Illinois > Chicago.

City planning > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.