From boom to bubble : how finance built the new Chicago /

During the Great Recession, the housing bubble took much of the blame for bringing the American economy to its knees, but commercial real estate also experienced its own boom-and-bust in the same time period. In Chicago, for example, law firms and corporate headquarters abandoned their historic down...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Weber, Rachel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Urban renewal > Illinois > Chicago.
Real estate development > Illinois > Chicago > Finance > History.
City planning > Illinois > Chicago.
Creative destruction > Illinois > Chicago.
Rénovation urbaine > Illinois > Chicago.
Destruction créatrice > Illinois > Chicago.
SOCIAL SCIENCE/Sociology/Urban.
City planning.
Creative destruction.
Real estate development > Finance.
Urban renewal.
Stadtsanierung
Stadtplanung
Bodenspekulation
Illinois > Chicago.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: why we overbuild
  • Real estate speculations
  • The rhythm of urban redevelopment
  • Fast money builds the speculative city
  • Out with the old: how professional practices construct the desire for new
  • Construction
  • Chicago in the 2000s
  • Downtown Chicago's millennial boom
  • Who overbuilt Chicago?
  • Making the market for Chicago's new skyscrapers
  • Building the future
  • The slow build
  • Epilogue: why we will continue to overbuild.

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