 | Building the City of Spectacle: Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Remaking of Chicago Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government -- 1951–; Tourism and city planning -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Urban renewal -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History; Daley Richard M. (Richard Michael) 1942–; Richard M. Daley, Chicago's longest-serving mayor, led a period of economic restructuring after the post-World War II urban crisis by building a vibrant tourist economy. This book focuses on his role in transforming Chicago's economy and urban culture. Costas Spirou is Professor and Chair of the Department of Government and Sociology at Georgia College & State University. He is the author of Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy and coauthor of It's Hardly Sportin': Stadiums, Neighborhoods and the New Chicago . Dennis R. Judd is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is coauthor of Restructuring the City: The Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment and coeditor most recently of The City, Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York . |
