Title Liquid Capital : Making the Chicago Waterfront

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages) Series American Business, Politics, and Society Ser American Business, Politics, and Society Ser Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction. State Power and the Rise of Chicago; Chapter 1. Making a River Run Through It; Chapter 2. The Legal Construction of Free Marketplaces; Chapter 3. The Creative Destruction of the Chicago River Harbor; Chapter 4. Beauty and the Crisis of Commercial Civilization; Chapter 5. A Public Pier for Pleasure and Profit; Epilogue. A Waterscape for the New Millennium; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Acknowledgments Summary In the nineteenth century, politicians transformed a disease-infested bog on the shore of Lake Michigan into an intensely managed waterscape supporting the life and economy of Chicago. Liquid Capital shows how Chicago's waterfront became both an economic hub and the site of many precedent-setting decisions about public land use Notes Print version record Subject Waterfronts -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century Waterfronts -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century Land use -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century Land use -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century Human ecology -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century Human ecology -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. Human ecology Land use Waterfronts Illinois -- Chicago Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812294583 0812294580

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