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Table of Contents
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List of Figures and Table |
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Acknowledgments |
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Abbreviations |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1: An American Ideology of Improvement |
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The Rise of Improvement |
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Disseminating Improvement |
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Urban Improvement |
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Conclusion |
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Chapter 2: Real Estate Businessmen and the Improved Property Market |
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Improvement and Chicago’s Real Estate Businessmen |
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Advertising and the Commodification of Improvement |
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Professionalization and Regulation |
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Conclusion |
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Chapter 3: “Active in Good Works”: NIAs |
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The Origins of Chicago’s NIAs |
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Membership |
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The Politics of Improvement |
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Objectives |
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Practices |
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Organizational Structure |
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Conclusion |
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Chapter 4: “Street Trees” |
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“Nature” and Chicago |
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Trees in the City |
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Street Trees and Real Estate Businessmen |
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Street Tree Species and Pest Control |
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NIAs |
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The City Forester and Institutionalization |
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Conclusion |
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Chapter 5: Local Prohibition and the Limits of Improvement |
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Prohibition as an Improvement Objective |
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Organizational Characteristics of the HPPA |
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“Local Option” |
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Amalgamation With the Illinois ASL and the Transformation of the HPPA |
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The HPPA and the University of Chicago |
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Reform and Reaction: Real Estate Businessmen |
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Racism, Ethnicity, and the Unraveling of the HPPA |
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Conclusion |
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Chapter 6: “All Negroes Were Black”: Anti-Improvement and the Expanding Web of Segregation |
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NIAs, Real Estate Businessmen, and the History of Segregation |
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African American and Interracial Grassroots Improvement |
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“Undesirables” and the Discourse of Anti-Improvement |
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Poor Housing, Vice, and African American Anti-Improvement |
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A “Fantasy of Blackness” and the Expanding Web of Segregation |
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Conclusion |
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Conclusion |
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Endnotes |
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Selected Bibliography |
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Index |