The Man-Made City: The Land-Use Confidence Game in Chicago

With its extraordinary uniform street grid, its magnificent lake—side park, and innovative architecture and public sculpture, Chicago is one of the most planned cities of the modern era. Yet over the past few decades Chicago has come to epitomize some of the worst evils of urban decay: widespread graft and corruption, political stalemates, troubled race relations, and economic decline. Broad—shouldered boosterism can no longer disguise the city's failure to keep pace with others, its failur...