Download or read book The Mysteries of the Great City written by John D. Fairfield and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati, Fairfield (history, Xavier U.) argues that, both before and after the advent of city planning, changes in the cities were political decisions highly influenced by corporate and private wealth. He says that the massiveness of skyscrapers, industrial districts, and neighborhoods gave a sense of inevitability to the changes that obscured the role of human choices. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR