Representing the Urban
Landscape
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BGS 392-10 -- Seminar in Humanities |
Tu/Th 6:00-8:30pm
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-- Useful Links and Selected Web Resources --
Chicago Culture
History: The Online Encyclopedia of Chicago; Chicago History Museum; The History Files (CHM exhibits); Historical Timeline of Chicago (CPL); Chicago Public Library's Digital Collections; The Great Chicago Fire (Web of Memory exhibit); DuSable Museum of African-American History; Chicago: City of the Century (PBS site based on the book by Donald Miller); The History Makers (African-American history archive); Museum of Broadcast Communications (Chicago)
Art: Photographs from the Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 (CHS / Library of Congress); Art Institute; Chicago Architecture Foundation; Chicago Architectural Landmarks (City of Chicago); Mexican Fine Arts Museum
The World's Fair of 1893: Interactive Guide to the Exposition (Bruce Shulman); IIT's Digital History Collection on the Fair; Multimedia Tour and Analysis of the Fair; CHS's website on the Exposition
Literature: University of Chicago Press' list of Chicago books; American Authors on the Web (listed chronologically by date of birth), American Literature Chronology; Mystery Guide; Seminary Co-op Bookstore; companion site for The Devil in the White City
Other Humanities Resources: Chicago Humanities Festival; Institute for the Humanities at UIC; PBS online; American Memory exhibits at the Library of Congress
Chicago Nature
Art/Photography/Architecture: Terry Evans, Revealing Chicago; Ford Calumet Environmental Center Design Competition; UrbanLab, Growing Water (City of the Future Competition)
Nature Writing: Great Books of the Chicago Wilderness (by Chicago Wilderness Magazine); Seeding the Snow (Midwestern Women's Nature Writing)
Geography/Mapping: The Public Square -- An Atlas of the Next Chicago Region; Atlas of Biodiversity; Natural Connections (Green Mapping); The Continental Divide in Oak Park
Ecology/Natural History: Atlas of Biodiversity; Chicago's Front Door -- the Lakefront from Pioneer Days to the Century of Progress (CPL); Wetlands of the Calumet Region (Sierra Club); Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie; Bridgehouse and Chicago River Museum; Joel Greenberg, A Naturalists's Tour of Southern Lake Michigan; Field Museum of Natural History
Conservation/Restoration: Chicago Wilderness Reports; Edens Lost and Found (PBS); Calumet Environmental Resource Center (Chicago State Univ.); Journey Through Calumet (Field Museum);
Planning: Chicago Metropolis 2020; Metropolitan Planning Council; Northeastern IL Planning Commission; Carl Smith, The Plan of Chicago (EofC); Campaign for Sensible Growth; CW Biodiversity Recovery Plan; Schaumburg's Biodiversity Plan; Calumet Area Use Plan (pdf);
Environmental Organizations/Resources: City of Chicago Dept of Environment; Chicago Wilderness; Center for Humans and Nature; Chicagoland Environmental Network; Chicago Park District; Forest Preserve District of Cook County; Friends of the Chicago River; Indiana Dunes Nat'l Lakeshore
Urban Nature and Ecology
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Humanities Resources
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Vital Research Tools (powerful search platform for books, journal articles, newspaper articles on all subjects)Google and Good Scholar (search the web) |
General News Sources ("All the News that's Fit To Print") |
Writer's Toolbox
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Film-Related Sites
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