List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Metropolitan Production System
SECTION I.
BUILDING THE INDUSTRIAL METROPOLIS
1 Chicago, the Mighty City
2 The Suburban Solution
3 Four Factory Districts, 1860–1940
4 The Shifting Geography of Metropolitan Employment:
Starts, Additions, & Moves
SECTION II.
NETWORKING THE INDUSTRIAL METROPOLIS
5 The Metropolitan Geography of Firm Linkages, 1872–1901
6 Forging the Calumet District, 1880–1940
7 Chicago’s Planned Industrial Districts: Clearing and the
Central Manufacturing Districts
8 Networked Space: The Connected Metropolis in the 1920s
9 Manufacturing Production Chains and Wholesaling
10 Local Production Practices and Inter-Firm Linkages:
Chicago’s Automotive Industry, 1900–1940
Conclusion
Appendix: Bankruptcy Records, 1872–1928
Notes
Index