High-Rise Housing in the 1960S (2024)

Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City

Thomas Leslie

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2023

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9780252054112

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9780252044953

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Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City

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Leslie, Thomas, 'High-Rise Housing in the 1960S', Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City (Champaign, IL, 2023; online edn, Illinois Scholarship Online, 18 Jan. 2024), https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252044953.003.0006, accessed 29 Apr. 2024.

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While the Central Area Plan’s focus was on the Loop’s revitalization, it recognized the need to supply that development with professional and clerical workers. Thus, in addition to championing Chicago’s growing network of expressways, the Plan also proposed high rise residential development convenient to the Loop. Marina City, twin towers designed by Bertrand Goldberg for the River’s north bank, was the paradigm, providing 1200 apartments aimed at office workers downtown. Pressure from outlying white wards forced the CHA to build its next generation of housing projects higher and denser, with disastrous results, while large scale private developments like Sandburg Village forged a dubious alliance between the city’s goals of downtown housing and developers’ efforts to entrench Chicago’s racial geography.

Keywords: Public Housing, Condominiums, Apartments, Urban Planning, Mixed-Use Development

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History of Architecture

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