The city in a garden : a photographic history of Chicago's parks / 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.

Main entry:

Bachrach, Julia Sniderman, 1960-

Title & Author:

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Placitas, N.M. : Center for American Places, in association with the Chicago Park District ; Chicago : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Description:

xi, 179 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm

Series:

Center books on Chicago and environs

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-172).
Foreword / Bill Kurtis -- A history of Chicago's parks / Julia Sniderman Bachrach -- Park profiles.
Also issued online.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Publisher description
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

1930066015
9781930066014
1930066023 (pbk.)
9781930066021 (pbk.)

Subject:

Park, Sung Kyu
Parks Illinois Chicago History Pictorial works.
Parks Illinois Chicago History.
Photography, Artistic.
Urban parks Illinois Chicago History Pictorial works.
Urban parks Illinois Chicago History.
Parcs urbains Illinois Chicago Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Parcs urbains Illinois Chicago Histoire.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Urban parks
Parks
Chicago (Ill.) History Pictorial works.
Chicago (Ill.) History.
Chicago (Ill.) History Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Chicago (Ill.) History Exhibitions.
Chicago (Ill.) Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Chicago (Ill.) Histoire.
Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Ill.

Form/genre:

Photography, Artistic.
Bildband.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
History
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Chicago Park District (Chicago, Ill.)
Center books on Chicago and environs.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 236235
Call No.: BIB 166066
Status: Available

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