The city in a garden
Subtitle: a photographic history of Chicago's parks
By: text by Julia Sniderman Bachrach ; foreword by Bill Kurtis ; contemporary photographs by Judith Bromley and James Iska ; and historic images from the Chicago Park District's Special Collections.
Contributors: Chicago Park District (Ill.).
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Center for American Places, in association with the Chicago Park District; Distributed by the University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Placitas, N.M; Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Urban parks -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- Pictorial works; Urban parks -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Photography, Artistic; Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Pictorial works; Chicago (Ill.) -- History
Genres: Pictorial works.
Description: Gardens, in the form of parks, grew hand in hand with the pioneer town of Chicago. Before the skyscrapers, or the expositions, Chicago's parks suggested a worldly sophistication not usually associated with a boomtown.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-172).