Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place by Cresswell, Tim

Description: What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago’s iconic Maxwell Street Market area. Maxwell Street was for decades a place where people from all corners of the city mingled to buy and sell goods, play and listen to the blues, and encounter new foods and cultures. Now, redeveloped and renamed University Village, it could hardly be more different.   In Maxwell Street, Cresswell advocates approaching the study of place as an “assemblage” of things, meanings, and practices. He models this innovative approach through a montage format that exposes the different types of texts—primary, secondary, and photographic sources—that have attempted to capture the essence of the area. Cresswell studies his historical sources just as he explores the different elements of Maxwell Street—exposing them layer by layer. Brilliantly interweaving words and images, Maxwell Street sheds light on a historic Chicago neighborhood and offers a new model for how to write about place that will interest anyone in the fields of geography, urban studies, or cultural history.

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EAN: 9780226604251

UPC: 9780226604251

ISBN: 9780226604251

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Book Title: Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place by Cres

Number of Pages: 264 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Maxwell Street : Writing and Thinking Place

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Subject: United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), Customs & Traditions, Sociology / Urban

Publication Year: 2019

Item Height: 0.1 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 18.1 Oz

Item Length: 1 in

Subject Area: Social Science, History

Author: Tim Cresswell

Item Width: 0.7 in

Format: Trade Paperback