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In the book, “The Suburb Reader” by Becky W. Nicolaides and Andrew Wiese, while reading chapter 9, Postwar America, there were many things that got my attention while reading it. This chapter talks about how there was many Americans that move from the city to the suburban areas during that Great Depression and the World War II because of the economy status during this time. These wars made the housing shortage in a very crisis levels. During this time because of the need that all these Americans…

New York City is the most populous city in the United States. It has as many as 800 languages with an estimated 18.9 million people. New York is the 27th most extensive, the 3rd most populous, and the 7th most densely populated of the 50 United States. New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Although New York City is the largest city in the country, much of New York is still rural. Albany is its state capital. New York is composed of five boroughs in which there…

Cultural Diversity in Chicago According to the Book “Lost Chicago”; the recorded history begins with two extraordinary Frenchmen, Jacques Marquette, and Louis Jolliet. In 1673, on their way back to Green Bay, following their exploration of the Mississippi, Marquette and Jolliet crossed the Chicago portage. “They found the countryside along the Illinois River rich and full of promise.” In July of 1803, Captain John Whistler, under orders from General Henry Dearborn, came to Chicago to build…

killer in Chicago during the 1890’s. He tries to describe how Daniel Burnham, an architect, builds the Chicago World Fair in an innocent or white city while at the same time helps Henry Holmes, the devil in the innocent city, to satisfy his craving of power, blood, and fear. Burnham tries to give Chicago a more positive reputation, but it ends of having a bad reputation due to Henry Holmes. Holmes gives it the bad reputation because he finds his victims at the World’s Fair in Chicago. The…

Among the most magnificent towers/skyscrapers around world. Chicago Tribune wanted to build “the most beautiful office building in the world”. In June 1922, Chicago tribune wanted to build an unusual and a style that was never repeated. The tribune tower had to be an iconic building in Chicago. Chicago Tribune were looking for an image over substance, personality over character, Salesman and acquisition over production. To celebrate newspaper’s Seventy-fifth anniversary, the tribune declared a…

Ah, Chicago, the Windy City, a famed metropolis known for its wholesome American values, deep-dish pizza, and its friendly, carefree, community. Nothing quite exemplifies the Founding Fathers’ vision of America like the Second City. Chicago is the only place where one can truly appreciate the equality and justice generations of Americans have fought to achieve. My journey began as many Chicagoans days do, to the hymn of police sirens and traffic. Slowly gliding into Chicago aboard a train, a…

Port of Call Port of Call, the French Quarter bar and grill was established in 1963 as a steakhouse. The restaurant is located on the historic and beautiful Esplanade Avenue in the French Quarter. Port of Call started out as a small quiet neighborhood restaurant open only at night. The menu consisted of primarily steaks. The chefs would grind up the steak scraps to make the hamburgers. Due to the chefs using steak scraps hamburgers were not a regular menu item. As time went on, Port of Call has…

Background Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was born on May 12, 1910 in Cairo, Egypt to her parents, John and Grace Crowfoot. Her father was a school inspector who later gained an interest in archeology and became the Director of Jerusalem’s British School of Archaeology. Dorothy’s fascination with chemistry and crystals started when she was ten on a visit to Sudan to visit her father. While she was there, her parents’ friend let her study and analyze chemicals. When she was fifteen, she received a…

Sean Farrell UPP 520 Professor Betancur Essay #2: The Downfall and Revitalization of Detroit and its relation to Neo-Liberalism Introduction: The city of Detroit has undergone a series of dramatic economic transformations throughout its history. It is these economic cycles throughout Detroit’s chronological timeline that help to both explain and describe the condition that Detroit is in, as well as give perspective for policymakers to come up with ways to deal with and improve the…

Detroit, the motor city, used to be the pinnacle of the American manufacturing industry. The 1950’s and 1960’s was the root of our modern day cities. This period of urban planning in America was one of idealized visions of vast cities and great public works projects. The urban planning practices of this period were consistent with “segregated and dispersed” development throughout the city generating an unsustainable urban sprawl and socio-economic concentration into the suburbs. Over 60 years…