An Early Encounter with Tomorrow: Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition
- ISBN-10
- 0252023056
- ISBN-13
- 9780252023057
- Category
- Architecture and society
- Pages
- 353
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Author
- Arnold Lewis
Description
Chicago in the late nineteenth century was the wonder city of the Western world, its famous Loop the laboratory in which to study innovative commercial architecture. There, Old World assumptions were overthrown by New World realities, as the past was discounted, the present glorified, and the future eagerly anticipated.
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