Professor Daniel Bluestone (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Chicago?s impressive industrial expansion in the late nineteenth century convinced most observers that the city was defined by the crass pursuit of wealth and that its architecture was, as described by Lewis Mumford, ?a brutal network of industrial necessities.? In a major new book, Daniel Bluestone disputes this vision of the city. Combining architectural history and cultural analysis, Bluestone explores the creation of Chicago?s parks, churches, skyscrapers, and civic buildings. He finds that the structure of the city was influenced as much by the moral, cultural, and aesthetic aspirations of its local elite as by the untempered forces of commerce and capital.…

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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition 1991, first printing, number line starts with 1. Published by Yale University Press. Hardcover with DJ. Condition new, square tight and clean book, corners not bumped, no edgewear, no markings of any kind, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ new, bright, no tears, no chips, no edgewear, not clipped. 4to, 248 pages, illustrated. Heavy book will require additional postage for international orders.…