Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780393072457 (0393072452)
Publish date: November 2nd 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Non Fiction,
History,
Urban Fantasy,
Literature,
Environment,
Nature,
Geography,
Economics,
American History,
19th Century,
Cities,
Urbanism
Chicago, says Cronon, cannot attribute its rapid growth in the last third of the nineteenth century simply to being a central place. Chicago stood at the boundaries of ecosystems, continental watersheds, glacial termini, rural and urban society, railroad “trunk and fan,” and “natural and cultural l...
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