Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago

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In early twentieth-century The usa, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that working-class white immigrants and African Americans in unexpectedly industrializing Chicago also fled the urban environment right through their scarce leisure time. If they had the means, they traveled to wilderness parks just past the city limits in addition to to rural resorts in Wisconsin and Michigan. But lacking money and time, they most incessantly sought out nature within the city itself–at urban parks and commercial groves, along the Lake Michigan shore, even in vacant lots. Chicagoans enjoyed a wide range of outside recreational activities in these green spaces, and they used them to forge ethnic and working-class community. At the same time as narrating a a very powerful era in the history of Chicago’s urban development, Fisher makes important interventions in debates about working-class leisure, the history of urban parks, environmental justice, the African American experience, immigration history, and the cultural history of nature.

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