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Robin F. Bachin

Building the South Side

Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919

448 pages, 71 halftones  6 x 9  © 2004
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America

Cloth $38.00

ISBN: 9780226033938   Published March 2004

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226033945   Published November 2008

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 - The University and the City
1. A New Order of Things: Planning and Building the University of Chicago
2. The City Seeking Aid from Alma Mater: Collegiate Culture, Coeducation, and the Boundaries of College and Community
Part 2 - Parks as Public Space
3. To Lay the Foundations for Good Citizenship: Neighborhood Parks and Outdoor Recreation
4. Let Your Watchword Be Order and Your Beacon Beauty: The Burnham Plan and the Civic Lakefront
Part 3 - Commercial Leisure and Civic Culture
5. Baseball Palace of the World: Commercial Recreation and the Building of Comiskey Park
6. A Mecca for Pleasure: Leisure, Work, and Spaces of Race Pride
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Subjects



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