Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago : architecture, institutions, and the making of a modern metropolis / Edward W. Wolner.
By: Wolner, Edward W
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Series: Chicago architecture and urbanism: Publisher: Chicago, ILL ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011Description: x, 384 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.ISBN: 9780226905617 (hbk.); 0226905616 (hbk.).Subject(s): Cobb, Henry Ives, 1859-1931![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Item type | Current location | Shelf location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Main Collection | Taylor's Library-TU |
Floor 4, Shelf 30 , Side 2, TierNo 5, BayNo 3 |
720.92 WOL 2011 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available | TDSxx,29006,03,GR | 5000130158 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 367- 373) and index.
Part I. A Proper Bostonian's Chicago -- The Union Club, self-made men, and Chicago's first period of growth -- Three mansions, four self-makers, and Chicago's metropolitan expansion -- The Chicago Opera House and the Owings Building: Skyscrapers and rationalized work I -- Cultural politics and the Newberry Library's compartmentalization of knowledge -- Part II. Cultural institutions and metropolitan maturity -- Cobb's varieties of the Romanesque -- Skyscrapers and rationalized Work II -- Self-made men, civic culture, and the University of Chicago (1889-1893) -- Science, self-makers, and the University's Second Building Campaign (1893-1897) -- Public square and the Federal Building: Design, civic discourse, and rationalized government -- Falls from grace --Chicago in New York.