From boom to bubble how finance built the new Chicago
During the Great Recession, the housing bubble took much of the blame for bringing the American economy to its knees, but commercial real estate also experienced its own boom-and-bust in the same time period. In Chicago, for example, law firms and corporate headquarters abandoned their historic down...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press
2015.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47403044*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: why we overbuild
- Real estate speculations
- The rhythm of urban redevelopment
- Fast money builds the speculative city
- Out with the old: how professional practices construct the desire for new
- Construction
- Chicago in the 2000s
- Downtown Chicago's millennial boom
- Who overbuilt Chicago?
- Making the market for Chicago's new skyscrapers
- Building the future
- The slow build
- Epilogue: why we will continue to overbuild.
