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What Would Jane Say? City-Building Women and a Tale of Two Chicagos
What Would Jane Say CityBuilding Women and a Tale of Two Chicagos Author:Janice Metzger City Beautiful or City Livable? "What Would Jane Say?" tells the tale of two approaches to city-building in the early 1900s and the people and ideas behind them. It also tells the story of of what was created in Chicago--and what could have been created. In 1909, architecture giants Daniel Burnham, Edward Benett, and the Commercial Club of Chica... more »go developed the "Plan of Chicago." They subscribed to the City Beautiful movement, which assumed that a city that was attractive and well organized would resolve vexing urban problems. The formidable Jane Addams and many female contemporaries were engaed in city-building work of a different sort. They subscribed to City Livable ideas that addressed the social, economic, and cultural needs of the population. After author Janice Metzger sets a detailed stage of Chicago at the turn of the 20th Century, she takes readers into wonderful speculative chapters of what might have been if the women of Chicago had had their say. . . .« less