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Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919 (Historical Studies of Urban America)

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Building the South Side explores the struggle for influence that dominated the planning and development of Chicago’s South Side all over the Progressive Era. Robin F. Bachin examines the early days of the University of Chicago, Chicago’s public parks, Comiskey Park, and the Black Belt to believe how community leaders looked to the physical design of the city to shape its culture and promote civic interaction.
Bachin highlights how the creation of a local terrain of civic culture was once a contested process, with the battle for cultural authority transforming urban politics and blurring the line between private and public space. In the process, universities, parks and playgrounds, and commercial entertainment districts emerged as alternative arenas of civic engagement.
 “Bachin incisively charts the development of key urban institutions and landscapes that helped constitute the messy vitality of Chicago’s late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public realm.”—Daniel Bluestone, Journal of American History
“That is an ambitious book filled with important insights about issues of public space and its use by urban residents. . . . It’s thoughtful, very well written, and will have to be read and appreciated by any individual interested in Chicago or cities in most cases. It is usually a gentle reminder that people are as important as structures and spaces in trying to be aware urban development.”
—Maureen A. Flanagan, American Historical Review

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