Sally A Kitt Chappell - Architectural Historial and Author

ProfileWorksChicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + LandscapeCahoki: Mirror of the CosmosGraham, Anderson, Probst and White: Transforming TraditionBarry Byrne: Architecture and WritingsWorld Columbian Exposition of 1893The Plan of Chicago 1909-1979 Contact

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Chicago's Urban Nature A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape
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Chicago is currently at the forefront of a global movement to end the division between town and country. In this beautifully illustrated guide to the city’s stunning blend of nature and architecture, Chappell explores seventy sites at the heart of this urban concept.

The author provides new insights into such historic sites as Jens Jensen’s Garfield Park Conservatory, Frederick Law Olmsted’s Jackson Park, and Alfred Caldwell’s Lily Pond, and then takes us to innovative contemporary green spaces, including City Hall’s Rooftop garden, the North Lawndale Green Youth Farm and Chicago’s heralded new Millennium Park. These beautiful green spaces, with their unprecedented melding of art, architecture, and ecology, have become far more than places of escape for Chicagoans—they’re now fully integrated into the urban scene, an essential part of the cultural life of the modern city. The connections between buildings and landscapes, culture and nature, commerce and leisure are woven into an energetic, culture-producing whole.

Geographically organized, the book also includes Chicago’s contributions to architectural and landscape history, such as its famous Boulevard System, and it Small Neighborhood Parks Movement—otherwise known as “Country Clubs for the Poor.” Significantly, it also includes recent additions such as the Aon Plaza, the North Lawndale Youth Farm, Navy Pier, the DePaul University uptown campus, and the spectacular Chicago Botanic Garden.

Packed with maps and recommended tours as well as splendid photos, Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape is an essential guidebook for day-trippers, lifelong Chicago residents, armchair travelers and professionals in landscape architecture, urbanism, and design.