Maxwell Street
Maxwell Street What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? Maxwell Street was for decades a place where people from all corners of the city mingled to buy and sell…
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Maxwell Street
What is the nature of place, and how does one undertake to write about it? 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. To answer these questions, geographer and poet Tim Cresswell looks to Chicago's iconic Maxwell Street Market area.
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. 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. Cresswell studies his historical sources just as he explores the different elements of Maxwell