Chicagos North Michigan Avenue

Author : John W. Stamper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226770857
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago's North Michigan Avenue written by John W. Stamper and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-08-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its opening in the 1920s, Chicago's North Michigan Avenue has been one of the city's most prestigious commerical corridors, lined by some of its most architecturally distinctive business, residential, and hotel buildings. Planned by Daniel Burnham in 1909, the avenue became the principal connecting link between downtown and the wealthy, residential "Gold Coast" north of the Loop. Some thirty buildings were constructed along its path in the ten-year period before the Depression, an urban expansion comparable in significance to that of Pennsylvania and Park Avenues. John W. Stamper traces the complex development of North Michigan Avenue from the 1880s to the 1920s building boom that solidified its character and economic base, describing the initiation of the planning process by private interests to its execution aided by the city's powerful condemnation and taxation proceedings. He focuses on individual buildings constructed on the avenue, including the Renaissance- and Gothic-inspired Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, and Drake Hotel, and places them within the context of factors governing their construction—property ownership, financing, zoning laws, design theory, and advertising. Stamper compares this stylistically diverse mixture of low- and high-rise structures with earlier, rejected planning proposals, all of which had prescribed a uniformly designed, European-like avenue of continuous cornice heights, consistent facade widths, and complementary stylistic features. He analyzes the drastically different character the avenue took by 1930, with high-rise towers reaching thirty stories and beyond, in terms of the clash among economic, political, and architectural interests. His argument—that the discrepancies between the rejected plans and reality illustrate the developers' choice of economic return on their investment over aesthetic community—is extended through to the present avenue and the virtual disregard of the urban qualities proposed at its inception. Generously illustrated, with an epilogue condensing the avenue's history between the end of World War II and the present, this is an exhaustive account of an important topic in the history of modern architecture and city planning.

Author : John W. Stamper
Publisher : Pomegranate
ISBN 13 : 9780764933820
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Michigan Avenue written by John W. Stamper and published by Pomegranate. This book was released on 2005 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Bronsky
Publisher : Chicago's Books Press
ISBN 13 : 9780979789250
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Magnificent Mile written by Eric Bronsky and published by Chicago's Books Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick T. McBriarty
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097254
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago River Bridges written by Patrick T. McBriarty and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago River Bridgespresents the untold history and development of Chicago's iconic bridges, from the first wood footbridge built by a tavern owner in 1832 to the fantastic marvels of steel, concrete, and machinery of today. It is the story of Chicago as seen through its bridges, for it has been the bridges that proved critical in connecting and reconnecting the people, industry, and neighborhoods of a city that is constantly remaking itself. In this book, author Patrick T. McBriarty shows how generations of Chicagoans built (and rebuilt) the thriving city trisected by the Chicago River and linked by its many crossings. This comprehensive guidebook chronicles more than 175 bridges spanning 55 locations along the Main Channel, South Branch, and North Branch of the Chicago River. With new full-color photography of existing bridges and more than one hundred black and white images of bridges past, the book unearths the rich history of Chicago's downtown bridges from the Michigan Avenue Bridge to the often forgotten bridges that once connected thoroughfares such as Rush, Erie, Taylor, and Polk Streets. Throughout, McBriarty delivers new research into the bridges' architectural designs, engineering innovations, and their impact on Chicagoans' daily lives, explaining how the dominance of the "Chicago-style" bascule drawbridge influenced the style and mechanics of bridges worldwide. Interspersed throughout are the human dramas that played out on and around the bridges, such as the floods of 1849 and 1992, the cattle crossing collapse of the Rush Street Bridge, or Vincent "The Schemer" Drucci's Michigan Avenue Bridge jump. A confluence of Chicago history, urban design, and engineering lore, Chicago River Bridges illustrates Chicago's significant contribution to drawbridge innovation and the city's emergence as the drawbridge capital of the world.

Author : Ellen S. Farrar
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738561844
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Magnificent Mile Lights Festival written by Ellen S. Farrar and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago's North Michigan Avenue, known as The Magnificent MileAA(R), has a long and rich tradition of celebrating the holiday season in grand style. Today the illumination of this world-famous avenue with more than one million white lights is considered by many the official start of the holiday season. The Magnificent Mile Lights FestivalAA(R) draws some one million visitors each November. Millions more watch the televised broadcast. The development of North Michigan Avenue, known in its humble early days as Pine Street, and the creation of its holiday and tree-lighting traditions are largely attributed to a dedicated group of entrepreneurs and business leaders, known as the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association. Over the years, this line of visionary Chicagoans recognized the avenue's potential and committed to making North Michigan Avenue a world-class street with world-class holiday traditions. The North Michigan Avenue district now features 56 hotels, 275 restaurants, 460 retail locations, and numerous educational, cultural, and health care institutions--and more than 18 million visitors annually. It is one of the great avenues of the world, offering one of the most iconic holiday images when it is aglow.

Author : Michael Corcoran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1613745753
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hollywood on Lake Michigan written by Michael Corcoran and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous edition: Chicago, Ill.: Lake Claremont Press, 1998, by Arnie Bernstein.

Author : Red Maps (Firm)
Publisher : West 16th Street Map Company
ISBN 13 : 9781892238399
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Chicago written by Red Maps (Firm) and published by West 16th Street Map Company. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chicago (Ill.). Board of Local Improvements
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating a World Famous Street written by Chicago (Ill.). Board of Local Improvements and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel M. Abramson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022631345X
Total Pages : 203 pages
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Download or read book Obsolescence written by Daniel M. Abramson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things fall apart. But in his innovative, wide-ranging, and well-illustrated book, Daniel Abramson investigates the American definition of what falling apart entails. We build new buildings partly in response to demand, but even more because we believe that existing buildings are slowly becoming obsolete and need to be replaced. Abramson shows that our idea of obsolescence is a product of our tax code, which was shaped by lobbying from building interests who benefit from the idea that buildings depreciate and need to be replaced. The belief in depreciation is not held worldwide which helps explain why preservation movements struggle more in America than elsewhere. Abramson s tour of our idea of obsolescence culminates in an assessment of recent tropes of sustainability, which struggle to cultivate the idea that the greenest building is the one that already exists."

Author : Ellen Christensen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738520247
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Michigan Avenue written by Ellen Christensen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses more than 180 photographs to trace the history of Chicago's Central Michigan Avenue from the 1860s to the present day.