Lee Bey Books
Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture Of Chicago'S South Side
Chicago's South Side Is Usually Viewed As A Place To Flee Or Avoid. It's Been That Way Since The Early 1900s When The Rich Traded Their South Side Mansions On Prairie Avenue And The Former Grand Bo...
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Two Tales Of A City: Rebuilding Chicago'S Architectural And Social Landscape, 1986-2005
By Gail Satler, Lee Bey
Architecture creates a social world. The built environment structures and facilitates the functions of a city and interactions among human beings. Stores, restaurants, theaters, parks, offices, and...
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Who Is The City For?
By Lee Bey, Blair Kamin
**A vividly illustrated collaboration between two of Chicago’s most celebrated architecture critics casts a wise and unsparing eye on inequities in the built environment and attempts to rectify the...
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Bronzeville Nights: On The Town In Chicago'S Black Metropolis
By Steven C. Dubin, Lee Bey, Michael Williams, Richard Cahan, Michael Williams, Lee Bey, Richard Cahan
Bronzeville was once America's most vibrant Black communitynext to Harlem. Nightclubs, dance halls, rialtos, and jazz and blues joints lined the streets of Chicago's South Side. Not much is left. A...
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