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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Writing and Thinking Place
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ISBN
9780226604398
Publisert
2019
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University of Chicago Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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