Here's the Deal: The Buying and Selling of a Great American City - Miller, Ross

Here's the Deal: The Buying and Selling of a Great American City by Miller, Ross

Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Published by Knopf, 1996

A hard-hitting study of how ambition and greed are leading our cities to disaster.

Before there was a Ground Zero in New York City, Block 37 was a giant hole in the heart of a great American city. In 1990, Chicago's Block 37 (as a key part of a twenty-seven-acre urban renewal project) was razed to the ground. After the expenditure of nearly $250 million of public and private capital, nothing has been built on this once vital and densely-occupied city block. This stubborn vacancy at the center of Chicago's historic downtown eerily presaged the post 9/11 wasteland in Lower Manhattan.