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Enterprise and Society 2008 9(1):224-226; doi:10.1093/es/khn006
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org.

Carl Smith. The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xvii + 167 pp. ISBN 13 978-0-226-76471-9, $22.00 (cloth)

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In the early 20th century, the large cities of the United States—the products of rapid industrialization and urbanization—were dirty, congested, unhealthy, ugly, and inefficient. Property development was driven solely by land values and speculation was rife. Civic elites feared that the cities were becoming less hospitable to investors and the growing middle class.

Local governments, though, lacked the vision and the regulatory tools to manage growth. Consequently, in numerous cities like St. Louis and Boston, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Robert A. Beauregard

Columbia University


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