Main entry:

Duis, Perry, 1943-

Title & Author:

Chicago : creating new traditions / by Perry Duis.

Publication:

Chicago : Chicago Historical Society, 1976.

Description:

144 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-142) and index.
Architecture: building for people. The mixed legacy of balloon frames ; The emergence of the professional architect ; Forces demanding change ; The technological triumph ; The result: practical aesthetics ; The Prairie School ; A truly American architecture. -- Planning on the prairie. Riverside: birthplace of a tradition ; Pullman's planned town ; Plaster paradise ; Burnham and the public city ; Filling in the plan ; City planning: an ideal. -- Reforming urban society. Moral reform in transition ; The settlement house: helping the neighborhood ; Reaching out: health and the judicial system ; The rights of labor ; Creating a larger classroom ; Dispersing reform ideas to America ; Chicago and reform. -- Culture: expanding the audience. Bringing art to the people ; Municipal art for Chicago ; Lorado Taft and public art ; The orchestra and the people ; Chicago and the movies ; Popular culture for the masses ; The method. -- Merchandising: selling new styles to the nation. Marshall Field and the department store ; Send your orders to Chicago ; Walter Dill Scott and advertising ; Chicago arts and crafts: the settlement ; Societies and salons ; Selling good taste. -- Literature: an urban awakening. The early generation ; The genteel journals and a critic ; The roots of populist literature ; A new Chicago school of writers ; New bards for Chicago ; The traditions in perspective.

Summary:

Presents architecture in Chicago, the Plan of Chicago, Riverside, the Pullman Community, Hull House, Art Institute of Chicago, Auditorium Theater, Marshall Field dept store, Sears and Montgomery Ward dept. stores.

ISBN:

0913820032
9780913820032
0913820059 (pbk.)
9780913820056 (pbk.)

Subject:

Arts Illinois Chicago.
American literature Illinois Chicago History and criticism.
City and town life in literature.
City planning Illinois Chicago.
Littérature américaine Illinois Chicago Histoire et critique.
Urbanisme Illinois Chicago.
Vie urbaine dans la littérature.
American literature
Arts
City planning
Civilization
Commerce
Social conditions
Chicago (Ill.) Civilization.
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions.
Chicago (Ill.) Commerce.
Chicago (Ill.) Civilisation.
Chicago (Ill.) Conditions sociales.
Illinois Chicago

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Chicago Historical Society.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 100549
Call No.: ID:85-B15558
Status: Available