Table of Contents
1 The Politics of Urban Economic Development
2 Downtown Redevelopment and the Chicago Political Machine
3 Rethinking Industrial Decline: The Chicago Printing and Apparel
Industries
4 Community Economic Development and the Crisis of Machine
Politics
5 The Battle for the Near North Side
6 Toward a Citywide Industrial Policy
Notes
Bibliography
Index
"Insightful... Rast clearly proves his thesis and makes a
significant contribution to the field of urban politics."—American
Political Science Review
"Rast mines the rich vein of studies of postwar development
practices in downtown Chicago in order to form his critical
reassessment of urban development theory."—APA Journal
"The knowledge [Rast] generated adds substantially to what is known
about Chicago during one of the most sweeping and contentious
periods of urban restructuring."—Urban Studies
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