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The Man-Made City

The Land-Use Confidence Game in Chicago

By: Gerald D. Suttles

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The Man-Made City

The Land-Use Confidence Game in Chicago

By: Gerald D. Suttles

With its extraordinary uniform street grid, its magnificent lake-side park, and innovative architecture and public sculpture, Chicago is one of the most planned cities of the modern era. Yet over the past few decades Chicago has come to epitomize some of the worst evils of urban decay: widespread graft and corruption, political stalemates, troubled race relations, and economic decline. Broad-shouldered boosterism can no longer disguise the city's failure to keep pace with others, its failure to attract new "sunrise" industries and world-class events. For Chicago, as for other rust-belt cities, new ways of planning and managing the urban environment are now much more than civic beautification; they are the means to survival. Gerald D. Suttles here offers an irreverent, highly critical guide to both the realities and myths of land-use planning and development in Chicago from 1976 through 1987.

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336

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University of Chicago Press

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ISBN 10

0226781933

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9780226781938

Front Page Economics

By: Gerald D. Suttles,Mark D. Jacobs

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Front Page Economics

By: Gerald D. Suttles,Mark D. Jacobs

In an age when pundits constantly decry overt political bias in the media, we have naturally become skeptical of the news. But the bluntness of such critiques masks the highly sophisticated ways in which the media frame important stories. In Front Page Economics, Gerald Suttles delves deep into the archives to examine coverage of two major economic crashes—in 1929 and 1987—in order to systematically break down the way newspapers normalize crises. Poring over the articles generated by the crashes—as well as the people in them, the writers who wrote them, and the cartoons that ran alongside them—Suttles uncovers dramatic changes between the ways the first and second crashes were reported. In the intervening half-century, an entire new economic language had arisen and the practice of business journalism had been completely altered. Both of these transformations, Suttles demonstrates, allowed journalists to describe the 1987 crash in a vocabulary that was normal and familiar to readers, rendering it routine. A subtle and probing look at how ideologies are packaged and transmitted to the casual newspaper reader, Front Page Economics brims with important insights that shed light on our own economically tumultuous times.

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272

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University of Chicago Press

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0226782018

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9780226782010

The Social Order of the Slum

Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City

By: Gerald D. Suttles

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The Social Order of the Slum

Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City

By: Gerald D. Suttles

While he did the research for this book, Gerald Suttles lived for almost three years in the high-delinquency area around Hull House on Chicago's New West Side. He came to know it intimately and was welcomed by its residents, who are Italian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Negro. Suttles contends that the residents of a slum neighborhood have a set of standards for behavior that take precedence over the more widely held "moral standards" of "straight" society. These standards arise out of the specific experience of each locality, are peculiar to it, and largely determine how the neighborhood people act. One of the tasks of urban sociology, according to Suttles, is to explore why and how slum communities provide their inhabitants with these local norms. The Social Order of the Slum is the record of such an exploration, and it defines theoretical principles and concepts that will aid in subsequent research.

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260

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University of Chicago Press

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0226781925

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9780226781921

Friendship As a Social Institution

By: Michal M. McCall,Gerald D. Suttles,Suzanne B. Kurth

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Friendship As a Social Institution

By: Michal M. McCall,Gerald D. Suttles,Suzanne B. Kurth

Originally published under title: Social relationships, Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co., [1970].

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AldineTransaction

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1412843855

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9781412843850

The Man-Made City

The Land-Use Confidence Game in Chicago

By: Gerald D. Suttles

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The Man-Made City

The Man-Made City

Front Page Economics

Front Page Economics

The Social Order of the Slum

The Social Order of the Slum

Friendship As a Social Institution

Friendship As a Social Institution

The Man-Made City

The Man-Made City

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