Grant Park
Subtitle: the evolution of Chicago's front yard
By: Dennis H. Cremin
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780809332502; 9780809332526
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Social life and customs; Landscape architecture; Social change; Community development; Case studies; Urban parks; City planning; History
Description: "In 1836, only three years after Chicago was founded, Chicagoans set aside the first narrow shoreline as public ground and declared it "forever open, clear, and free." Chicago historian and author Dennis H. Cremin reveals that despite such intent, the transformation of Grant Park to the spectacular park it is more than 175 years later was a gradual process, at first fraught with a lack of funding and organization, and later challenged by erosion, the railroads, automobiles, and a continued battle between original intent and conceptions of progress"--Page 2 of jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: Early Park History : Lake, Land, and Place; title: Lake Park : A Cultural and Civic Center; title: The World's Columbian Exposition and Chicago's Cultural Flowering; title: Making the White City Permanent; title: The New Design; title: Gateway and Cultural Center : From A Century of Progress to Postwar Park; title: Parking Lots, Protests, and Mayhem : Grant Park in the Daley Era; title: The Park Reenvisioned and Renewed.