
Chicago
A Geography of the City and Its Region
John C. Hudson(Author)
University of Chicago Press
Published on 1. May 2006
Book
Hardback
356 pages
978-0-226-35806-2 (ISBN)
Description
The geography of Chicago is central to its history and to its success as the nation's now third-largest metropolitan area. The first geography of the Windy City in more than fifty years, "Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region" is a topical and chronological analysis of the area that both considers the city's historical geography and anticipates its future trends. Renowned geographer John Hudson leaves no aspect unexplored in this ambitious and peerless book. Beginning with an overview of metropolitan Chicago, Hudson describes how the city has served as a model to social scientists and examines its unique neighborhoods and communities from the perspectives of Chicagoans themselves. A thorough description of the physical geography of the region introduces a series of studies in historical geography that consider the origins of the city and its early development through to its present state, paying particular attention to race, ethnicity, and suburbanization, as well as commuting patterns, neighborhood change, and patterns of income distribution.
"Chicago" concludes with a comparison of the balanced geography that prevailed in the early twentieth century with the skewed pattern of sectoral imbalances that exists today. Supplemented with more than one hundred maps that illustrate the evolution of Chicago over time and sixty-four black-and-white and color photographs that capture iconic images of the city's landscapes and people, "Chicago" beautifully synthesizes the city's social and economic strata with geographical features to provide an authoritative guide to modern Chicagoland.
"Chicago" concludes with a comparison of the balanced geography that prevailed in the early twentieth century with the skewed pattern of sectoral imbalances that exists today. Supplemented with more than one hundred maps that illustrate the evolution of Chicago over time and sixty-four black-and-white and color photographs that capture iconic images of the city's landscapes and people, "Chicago" beautifully synthesizes the city's social and economic strata with geographical features to provide an authoritative guide to modern Chicagoland.
Reviews / Votes
"John Hudson has written a most engaging book that firmly establishes the importance of human spatiality as a consideration in the study of Chicago, and of cities generally. Hudson synthesizes much of what has previously been written about Chicago by geographers and other scholars variously concerned with landscape and place, but he substantially expands upon it, both through updated material and through innovative analysis and interpretation. His is an effort that will be widely admired and, I would hope, widely emulated." - John A. Jakle, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicago
United States
Publishing group
The University of Chicago Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
16 colour plates, 48 halftones, 116 maps, 1 chart
Dimensions
Height: 261 mm
Width: 211 mm
Weight
1586 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-226-35806-2 (9780226358062)
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Person
John C. Hudson is director of the geography program and environmental sciences program at Northwestern University. Among his books are Plains Country Towns, Making the Corn Belt, and Across This Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada.