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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and The great West.

By: Cronon, William Material type: Text

TextPublication details: W.W. Norton ; 1991Edition: 5thDescription: xxv; 530pISBN: 9780393308730Subject(s): Urban TheoryDDC classification: 711.1 |

Contents:

Part I: To be the Central City: Dreaming the Metropolis: Patterns on a Prairie Landscape p.23, Booster Dreams p.31, Metropolis and Empire p.41, Reading Turner Backwards p.46, Rails and Water: Market in the Mud p.55, Artificial Corridors p.63, Railroad Time p.74, The Logic of Capital p.81, Part II: Nature to Market: Pricing the Future: Grain, Prairie into Farm p.97, A Sack's Journey p.104, The Golden Stream p.109, Futures p.120, Boundary Disputes p.132, Necessary Fictions p.142, The Wealth of Nature: Lumber, Where Value Comes From p.148, From Forest to Prairie p.151, The Business of Lumber p.159, Cargo Market Buying by Rail p.180, Lost Hinterlands p.183, The Cutover p.200, Annihilating Space: Meat p.207, The Great Bovine City of the World p.207, Slaughtering the Bison p.213, Open Range and Feed Lot p.218, Porkopolis p.225, Storing the Winter p.230, Triumph of the Packers p.235, Unremembered Deaths p.247, Part III: The Geography of Capital Gateway City p.263, Mapping Capital p.263, Credit Flows p.269, The Urban Hierarchy p.279, Gateway Rivalry: Chicago and St. Louis p.295, The Busy Hive p.310, Reaping the Factory's Harvest p.310, The Merchant's World: Prerailroad p.318, The Merchant's World: Postrailroad p.324, Catalogs on Kitchen Tables p.333, White City Pilgrimage p.333, The Great Fair p.341, Miracle of the Phoenix p.345, Metropolitan Vice p.350, The Moral Economy of City and Country p.357, City and Country as a Unity p.364, Epilogue: Where we were Driving p.371, Appendix: Methodological Note on the Bankruptcy Maps p.387

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Part I: To be the Central City: Dreaming the Metropolis: Patterns on a Prairie Landscape p.23, Booster Dreams p.31, Metropolis and Empire p.41, Reading Turner Backwards p.46, Rails and Water: Market in the Mud p.55, Artificial Corridors p.63, Railroad Time p.74, The Logic of Capital p.81, Part II:
Nature to Market: Pricing the Future: Grain, Prairie into Farm p.97, A Sack's Journey p.104, The Golden Stream p.109, Futures p.120, Boundary Disputes p.132, Necessary Fictions p.142, The Wealth of Nature: Lumber, Where Value Comes From p.148, From Forest to Prairie p.151, The Business of Lumber p.159, Cargo Market Buying by Rail p.180, Lost Hinterlands p.183, The Cutover p.200, Annihilating Space: Meat p.207, The Great Bovine City of the World p.207, Slaughtering the Bison p.213, Open Range and Feed Lot p.218, Porkopolis p.225, Storing the Winter p.230, Triumph of the Packers p.235, Unremembered Deaths p.247, Part III: The Geography of Capital Gateway City p.263, Mapping Capital p.263, Credit Flows p.269, The Urban Hierarchy p.279, Gateway Rivalry: Chicago and St. Louis p.295, The Busy Hive p.310, Reaping the Factory's Harvest p.310, The Merchant's World: Prerailroad p.318, The Merchant's World: Postrailroad p.324, Catalogs on Kitchen Tables p.333, White City Pilgrimage p.333, The Great Fair p.341, Miracle of the Phoenix p.345, Metropolitan Vice p.350, The Moral Economy of City and Country p.357, City and Country as a Unity p.364, Epilogue: Where we were Driving p.371, Appendix: Methodological Note on the Bankruptcy Maps p.387

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