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OverviewA hard-hitting study of how ambition and greed are leading our cities to disaster. Before there was a Ground Zero in New York City, Block 37 was a giant hole in the heart of a great American city. In 1990, Chicago's Block 37 (as a key part of a twenty-seven-acre urban renewal project) was razed to the ground. After the expenditure of nearly $250 million of public and private capital, nothing has been built on this once vital and densely-occupied city block. This stubborn vacancy at the center of Chicago's historic downtown eerily presaged the post 9/11 wasteland in Lower Manhattan. In a new critical introduction, Ross Miller makes the historical and political connections necessary to understand how modern city planning and redevelopment really works. By exploring one American urban block in meticulous detail, Miller clarifies the opaque process that continually breaks and remakes our most vital cities. Here's the Deal is a thrilling true-life story of back room deals and political promises. Told throughout with the scrupulousness of serious scholarship and the excitement of a novel, Here's the Deal is already considered a modern classic of urban literature. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ross MillerPublisher: Northwestern University Press Imprint: Northwestern University Press Edition: Second Edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.494kg ISBN: 9780810120372ISBN 10: 0810120372 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 31 March 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsRoss Miller's Here's the Deal is even more of an American apocalypse than his earlier book on the great fire of Chicago. It is nothing less than an authentic vision of the destruction of the paradigm of all America's inner cities. --Harold Bloom<br> Smart, wise, funny ... Here's the Deal is a representative urban tragedy against which the best revenge ... is a high-spirited recounting. --Nicholas Lemann<br> Smart, wise, funny ... <i>Here's the Deal</i>is a representative urban tragedy against which the best revenge ... is a high-spirited recounting. --Nicholas Lemann Author InformationRoss Miller. has written architectural and urban criticism for the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times among other national publications. He has been a contributing editor of Progressive Architecture and former director of the Chicago Institute of Architecture and Urbanism. He is the author of American Apocalypse: The Great Fire and the Myth of Chicago (Chicago, 1990). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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