This insightful study of Chicago's new Central Area illuminates the ways in which the renovations of the past two decades have reconfigured the social as well as the physical landscape. By intermingling housing, retailing, entertainment, and business establishments, the Central Area fosters diverse uses of urban space and welcomes a diversity of users. If architecture embodies ideology and social relationships as Satler so clear documents, then, she argues, it also offers potential for reshaping the life of a city. Her work is creative and cutting edge, but in this accessibly written,...

This sociological analysis of Wright's architecture examines the interaction between people and the spaces they create. Satler shows how Wright explored a new architectural dimension, the space in which we live. Focusing on the Larkin Building (1904) and Unity Temple (1907), works that Wright considered important but that have received little attention, Satler delineates the social nature of space. She provides an analytic framework through which to understand Wright's buildings and his writings, revealing how the history of such works and cultural landscapes offer a basis for making social,...