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The perfect city

Title
The perfect city / Bob Thall ; with an essay by Peter Bacon Hales.
Author
Thall, Bob.
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

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Book/TextUse in library NA735.C4 T48 1994Off-site

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Additional Authors
Hales, Peter B. (Peter Bacon)
Description
113 pages : illustrations; 23 x 29 cm
Summary
In The Perfect City, photographer Bob Thall explores the changing downtown landscape of America's third-largest city - Chicago. In sixty-four duotone photographs, Thall provides a visual record of the changing architectural landscape of downtown Chicago between 1972 and 1991. Throughout, Thall's photographs stress the concept of change and the importance of architecture in shaping our notion of place. They examine the great public spaces, buildings, and streets that have always served at the heart and soul of city life, culture, and commerce. And they show how the city in which modern urban architecture began becomes a metaphor for urban change throughout America. In the essay accompanying the photographs Peter Bacon Hales examines the notion of the city as museum (especially for visitors from the suburbs and rural areas), highlights the successes and failures of urban renewal in downtown Chicago, and assesses the city's current character.
Series Statement
Creating the North American landscape
Uniform Title
Creating the North American landscape
Subject
  • Architecture > Illinois > Chicago > Pictorial works
  • Architecture > United States > Pictorial works
  • Architecture
  • City
  • Städtebau
  • Bildband
  • Photographie d'architecture
  • Illinois > Chicago
  • United States
  • Chicago, Ill
  • Chicago (Ill.) > Constructions
Genre/Form
  • k – Exhibition – v – Publications.
  • illustrated books.
  • Illustrated works
  • Pictorial works
  • Illustrated works.
  • Ouvrages illustrés.
ISBN
  • 0801847257
  • 9780801847257
  • 0801847265
  • 9780801847264
LCCN
93034460
OCLC
  • ocm28845626
  • 28845626
  • SCSB-2029222
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library