Maxwell Street : Writing and Thinking Place - Tim Cresswell

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Maxwell Street

Writing and Thinking Place

By: Tim Cresswell

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Paperback | 2 April 2019 | Edition Number 1

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264 Pages

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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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"Maxwell Street is about two things at once. On one hand, it is about a specific empirical case of a historical compact market district in Chicago, Illinois. On the other, it is about the nature of place and how one operationalizes the study of it. Professor Tim Cresswell's new book extends a poetic, artistic sensibility to his slow scholarship in a way that is creative, formally experimenting, and occasionally exhilarating. The book deserves attention. . . . Maxwell Street is a well-constructed contemporary manifesto for a resolutely humanistic and grounded approach to studying place."-- "Southeastern Geographer"
"Maxwell Street: Writing and Thinking Place will appeal to readers interested in urban life, cultural geography and the city of Chicago, USA. It explores place from the real-world context of a colourful market in one of the city's oldest residential districts."-- "Geography"
"Through an extremely interesting set of sources, traces, and ideas, Cresswell generates a series of highly stimulating and imaginative juxtapositions. A fascinating addition to the current literature on Chicago, cultural history, and urban writing, Maxwell Street will appeal to diverse academic and public readerships."-- "Matthew Gandy, University of Cambridge"

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