The Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago: A History of Our Future by Graeme Thomson, Mike Davis, Marco D'Eramo

The Pig and the Skyscraper: Chicago: A History of Our Future

Graeme Thomson, Mike Davis, Marco D'Eramo

472 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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Chicago has been that stage for some of modernity's key episodes: the birth of the skyscraper, the rise of urban sociology, the world's first atomic reader, the economic school of the Chicago Boys. Describing the postmodern Babel, where the featur...

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