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Author : Chicago (Ill.). Department of Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : UCAL:B2981721
Author : Patrick T. McBriarty
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780252097256
Chicago River Bridgespresents the untold history and development of Chicago's iconic bridges, from the first wood footbridge built by a tavern owner in 1832 to the fantastic marvels of steel, concrete, and machinery of today. It is the story of Chicago as seen through its bridges, for it has been the bridges that proved critical in connecting and reconnecting the people, industry, and neighborhoods of a city that is constantly remaking itself. In this book, author Patrick T. McBriarty shows how generations of Chicagoans built (and rebuilt) the thriving city trisected by the Chicago River and linked by its many crossings. This comprehensive guidebook chronicles more than 175 bridges spanning 55 locations along the Main Channel, South Branch, and North Branch of the Chicago River. With new full-color photography of existing bridges and more than one hundred black and white images of bridges past, the book unearths the rich history of Chicago's downtown bridges from the Michigan Avenue Bridge to the often forgotten bridges that once connected thoroughfares such as Rush, Erie, Taylor, and Polk Streets. Throughout, McBriarty delivers new research into the bridges' architectural designs, engineering innovations, and their impact on Chicagoans' daily lives, explaining how the dominance of the "Chicago-style" bascule drawbridge influenced the style and mechanics of bridges worldwide. Interspersed throughout are the human dramas that played out on and around the bridges, such as the floods of 1849 and 1992, the cattle crossing collapse of the Rush Street Bridge, or Vincent "The Schemer" Drucci's Michigan Avenue Bridge jump. A confluence of Chicago history, urban design, and engineering lore, Chicago River Bridges illustrates Chicago's significant contribution to drawbridge innovation and the city's emergence as the drawbridge capital of the world.
Author : Carl Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226022659
A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. It is also an infrastructure of ideas that are a support for the beliefs, values, and aspirations of the people who created the city. In City Water, City Life, celebrated historian Carl Smith explores this concept through an insightful examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and the 1860s. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, Smith illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization. But City Water, City Life is more than a history of urbanization. It is also a refreshing meditation on water as a necessity, as a resource for commerce and industry, and as an essential—and central—part of how we define our civilization.
Author : Benjamin Sells
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810134751
The Tunnel under the Lake recounts the gripping story of how the young city of Chicago, under the leadership of an audacious engineer named Ellis Chesbrough, constructed a two-mile tunnel below Lake Michigan in search of clean water. Despite Chicago's location beside the world’s largest source of fresh water, its low elevation at the end of Lake Michigan provided no natural method of carrying away waste. As a result, within a few years of its founding, Chicago began to choke on its own sewage collecting near the shore. The befouled environment, giving rise to outbreaks of sickness and cholera, became so acute that even the ravages and costs of the U.S. Civil War did not distract city leaders from taking action. Chesbrough's solution was an unprecedented tunnel five feet in diameter lined with brick and dug sixty feet beneath Lake Michigan. Construction began from the shore as well as the tunnel’s terminus in the lake. With workers laboring in shifts and with clay carted away by donkeys, the lake and shore teams met under the lake three years later, just inches out of alignment. When it opened in March 1867, observers, city planners, and grateful citizens hailed the tunnel as the "wonder of America and of the world." Benjamin Sells narrates in vivid detail the exceptional skill and imagination it took to save this storied city from itself. A wealth of fascinating appendixes round out Sells’s account, which will delight those interested in Chicago history, water resources, and the history of technology and engineering.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1198 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : CUB:U183026555439
Author : American Society of Civil Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Civil engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015066542260
Vols. for Jan. 1896-Sept. 1930 contain a separately page section of Papers and discussions which are published later in revised form in the society's Transactions. Beginning Oct. 1930, the Proceedings are limited to technical papers and discussions, while Civil engineering contains items relating to society activities, etc.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Public works
ISBN : NYPL:33433062740331
1880, 1890-19 have prefixed the annual message of the mayor.
Author : Margaret Garb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226282091
In this vivid portrait of life in Chicago in the fifty years after the Civil War, Margaret Garb traces the history of the American celebration of home ownership. As the nation moved from an agrarian to an industrialized urban society, the competing visions of capitalists, reformers, and immigrants turned the urban landscape into a testing ground for American values. Neither a natural progression nor an inevitable outcome, the ideal of home ownership emerged from the struggles of industrializing cities. Garb skillfully narrates these struggles, showing how the American infatuation with home ownership left the nation's cities sharply divided along class and racial lines. Based on research of real estate markets, housing and health reform, and ordinary homeowners—African American and white, affluent and working class—City of American Dreams provides a richly detailed picture of life in one of America's great urban centers. Garb shows that the pursuit of a single-family house set on a tidy yard, commonly seen as the very essence of the American dream, resulted from clashes of interests and decades of struggle.
Author : Chicago (Ill.). Department of Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Public works
ISBN : MINN:31951002239600W
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : SRLF:A0013448154
Author : American Society of Civil Engineers. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HL4U4L
Author : United States. War Department. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : HARVARD:HNMVVF
Author : Chicago (Ill.). Department of Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Public works
ISBN : UOM:39015074800320
Author : United States. War Department. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127307416
Author : United States. War dept. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : UOM:39015036784919