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Schrenk Lisa D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226318943, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 179 halftones, 1 table

Between 1898 and 1909, Frank Lloyd Wright's residential studio in the idyllic Chicago suburb of Oak Park served as a nontraditional work setting as he matured into a leader in his field and formulized his iconic design ideology. Here, architecture hi...

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King Records Legacy: Acts I, II, III

ISBN: PB: 9781947602786, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, September 2020
225 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 100 halftones

King Records was an independent recording studio, founded in 1943 in the Evanston neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. It was at one point the sixth largest record company in the United States, representing artists such as James Brown, Bonnie Lou, The S...

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Chicago Apartments A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury

Harris Neil, Edelstein Teri J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226610870, University of Chicago Press, February 2020
368 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 344 duotones

The Chicago lakefront is one of America's urban wonders. The ribbon of high-rise luxury apartment buildings along the Lake Michigan shore has few, if any, rivals nationwide for sustained architectural significance. This historic confluence of site, m...

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Exploring the Architecture of Place in America's Public and Farmers Markets

Clarke Albright Kathryn

ISBN: PB: 9781947602663, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, January 2020
180 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 75 colour illus., 23 line drawings and figures

"Exploring the Architecture of Place in America's Public and Farmers Markets" draws attention to the simple but elusive architectural space of public and farmers markets. It discusses three seminal types of markets – heritage building, open-air pavil...

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Vertical Europe The Sociology of High-Rise Construction

Glauser Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9783593510163, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
300 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 13 colour plates, 5 halftones

More high-rise residential buildings have been built in the last two decades than at any other time before. Even in Europe, where historically a typical city's most prominent vertical accents came from chimneys and church steeples, towering buildings...

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Art Nouveau Prague

Wittlich Petr

ISBN: PB: 9788024642932, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2019
200 pp., 26.6x20.3 cm, 158 colour plates, 10 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989, Prague has become one of Europe's – and the world's – most popular tourist destinations. As in London, Paris, and Rome, visitors flock to th...

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America

Design for the Crowd Patriotism and Protest in Union Square

Merwood-Salisbury Joanna

ISBN: HB: 9780226080826, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
312 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 43 halftones

Situated on Broadway between Fourteenth and Seventeenth Streets, Union Square occupies a central place in both the geography and the history of New York City. Though this compact space was originally designed in 1830 to beautify a residential neighbo...

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Importance of Being Urban Designing the Progressive School District, 1890-1940

Gamson David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226634548, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 1 table

For half a century – from the 1890s through World War II – the greatest hopes of American progressive reformers lay not in the government, the markets, or other seats of power, but in urban school districts and classrooms".The Importance of Being Urb...

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Making the Most of Tomorrow A North Bohemian Laboratory of Socialist Modernism

Spurny Matej

ISBN: PB: 9788024640174, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, May 2019
330 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Most, one of the most impressive historical cities of Northern Bohemia, was destroyed in the sixties and seventies for coal mining. When plans to redevelop the city began, hope and expecta...

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New York Recentered Building the Metropolis from the Shore

Murphy Schlichting Kara

ISBN: HB: 9780226613024, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones

The history of New York City's urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park".New York Recentered" boldly shifts the focus to the city's geographic edges – the...

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