Old Town Neighborhood Association
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Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780967229621
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn architectural history of the Old Town neighborhood in the City of Chicago featuring historic houses and their owners, illustrated with photographs of interiors and exteriors and paintings by noted artists
Author: Stephanie Denise Monroe
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 104
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Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 158
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Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2011-06-14
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1614233535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew York has Greenwich Village; New Orleans has its French Quarter; Paris has Montmartre. And Chicago has its own little piece of charm that rivals them all. Chicago has Old Townan oasis in the steel and stone heart of the city, an old-fashioned, do-it-yourself neighborhood beloved by artists and entrepreneurs as the perfect place to find a muse and raise a family. And while a casual, inobservant visitor can feel the magnetism of the place, lifelong residents may still be unaware of the hidden bits of history Old Town has drawn into itself. Until now.
Author: Sonya Salamon
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007-07-24
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0226734110
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2004 winner of the Robert E. Park Book Award from the Community and Urban Sociology Section (CUSS) of the American Sociological Association Although the death of the small town has been predicted for decades, during the 1990s the population of rural America actually increased by more than three million people. In this book, Sonya Salamon explores these rural newcomers and the impact they have on the social relationships, public spaces, and community resources of small town America. Salamon draws on richly detailed ethnographic studies of six small towns in central Illinois, including a town with upscale subdivisions that lured wealthy professionals as well as towns whose agribusinesses drew working-class Mexicano migrants and immigrants. She finds that regardless of the class or ethnicity of the newcomers, if their social status differs relative to that of oldtimers, their effect on a town has been the same: suburbanization that erodes the close-knit small town community, with especially severe consequences for small town youth. To successfully combat the homogenization of the heartland, Salamon argues, newcomers must work with oldtimers so that together they sustain the vital aspects of community life and identity that first drew them to small towns. An illustration of the recent revitalization of interest in the small town, Salamon's work provides a significant addition to the growing literature on the subject. Social scientists, sociologists, policymakers, and urban planners will appreciate this important contribution to the ongoing discussion of social capital and the transformation in the study and definition of communities.