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Author : John W. Stamper
Publisher : Pomegranate
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0764933825
Author : John W. Stamper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991-08-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226770850
Since its opening in the 1920s, Chicago's North Michigan Avenue has been one of the city's most prestigious commerical corridors, lined by some of its most architecturally distinctive business, residential, and hotel buildings. Planned by Daniel Burnham in 1909, the avenue became the principal connecting link between downtown and the wealthy, residential "Gold Coast" north of the Loop. Some thirty buildings were constructed along its path in the ten-year period before the Depression, an urban expansion comparable in significance to that of Pennsylvania and Park Avenues. John W. Stamper traces the complex development of North Michigan Avenue from the 1880s to the 1920s building boom that solidified its character and economic base, describing the initiation of the planning process by private interests to its execution aided by the city's powerful condemnation and taxation proceedings. He focuses on individual buildings constructed on the avenue, including the Renaissance- and Gothic-inspired Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, and Drake Hotel, and places them within the context of factors governing their construction—property ownership, financing, zoning laws, design theory, and advertising. Stamper compares this stylistically diverse mixture of low- and high-rise structures with earlier, rejected planning proposals, all of which had prescribed a uniformly designed, European-like avenue of continuous cornice heights, consistent facade widths, and complementary stylistic features. He analyzes the drastically different character the avenue took by 1930, with high-rise towers reaching thirty stories and beyond, in terms of the clash among economic, political, and architectural interests. His argument—that the discrepancies between the rejected plans and reality illustrate the developers' choice of economic return on their investment over aesthetic community—is extended through to the present avenue and the virtual disregard of the urban qualities proposed at its inception. Generously illustrated, with an epilogue condensing the avenue's history between the end of World War II and the present, this is an exhaustive account of an important topic in the history of modern architecture and city planning.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030107049
Author : Eric Bronsky,Neal S. Samors
Publisher : Chicago's Books Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0979789257
Author : Ellen S. Farrar
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738561843
Chicago's North Michigan Avenue, known as The Magnificent MileAA(R), has a long and rich tradition of celebrating the holiday season in grand style. Today the illumination of this world-famous avenue with more than one million white lights is considered by many the official start of the holiday season. The Magnificent Mile Lights FestivalAA(R) draws some one million visitors each November. Millions more watch the televised broadcast. The development of North Michigan Avenue, known in its humble early days as Pine Street, and the creation of its holiday and tree-lighting traditions are largely attributed to a dedicated group of entrepreneurs and business leaders, known as the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association. Over the years, this line of visionary Chicagoans recognized the avenue's potential and committed to making North Michigan Avenue a world-class street with world-class holiday traditions. The North Michigan Avenue district now features 56 hotels, 275 restaurants, 460 retail locations, and numerous educational, cultural, and health care institutions--and more than 18 million visitors annually. It is one of the great avenues of the world, offering one of the most iconic holiday images when it is aglow.
Author : Wallace J. Gordon
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781418460174
One man’s memoir about a decade in Chicago. One story that’s a hundred stories, about: -- The Great American Novel that never got written-- -- A young writer’s introduction to big-agency advertising-- -- Ads and commercials and clients and bosses-- -- Hits and misses and triumphs and catastrophies-- -- A lovely young lady who became a supportive wife and mother-- -- Three young sons who kept both parents hopping-- -- Garrets and apartments and dream houses in the suburbs-- -- And an interesting look at America in the ’50’s from a front-row seat in the advertising that helped propel it. How it worked and didn’t work, scored and struck out, rewarded and punished, and just about everything else.
Author : Steven Dayan
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781614485865
Examines the ways in which personal appearance can affect interactions with others on a subconscious level, providing an explanation for sexual attraction and for the hidden motivations behind many human actions and prejudices.
Author : United States. Federal Housing Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Mortgage banks
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU04250923
Author : Frank Alfred Randall,John D. Randall
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0252024168
"The second edition of History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago is a tribute to Frank Randall's vision and resource to Chicago area architects, engineers, preservation specialists, and other members of the building industry."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1792 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Corporations
ISBN : UIUC:30112085193610
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030129621
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Student aid
ISBN : UOM:39015001709115
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1976 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015074735401
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Petroleum industry and trade
ISBN : SRLF:A0000430298
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Landlord and tenant
ISBN : LOC:00118559216