Larry Bennett is a professor emeritus at DePaul University and the author of The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism.

• PrefaceThree Modernities The Historic Preservation of Not-Old Buildings Two Lost Cities Unruly Products Nostalgia for Modernity NotesIndex

“Bennett explores an essential contradiction about modernism and modernity: that there is often nostalgia for a cultural movement that, by definition, eschews nostalgia. He leans into contemporary debates about whether ‘recent past’ buildings and other modernist technologies such as the vinyl LP should be preserved and embraced while presenting his arguments in prose that is polished, confident, and a pleasure to read.”--Rachel Weber, author of From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago

Larry Bennett is a professor emeritus at DePaul University and the author of The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism.

• PrefaceThree Modernities The Historic Preservation of Not-Old Buildings Two Lost Cities Unruly Products Nostalgia for Modernity NotesIndex

“Bennett explores an essential contradiction about modernism and modernity: that there is often nostalgia for a cultural movement that, by definition, eschews nostalgia. He leans into contemporary debates about whether ‘recent past’ buildings and other modernist technologies such as the vinyl LP should be preserved and embraced while presenting his arguments in prose that is polished, confident, and a pleasure to read.”--Rachel Weber, author of From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago

Larry Bennett is a professor emeritus at DePaul University and the author of The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism.

• PrefaceThree Modernities The Historic Preservation of Not-Old Buildings Two Lost Cities Unruly Products Nostalgia for Modernity NotesIndex

“Bennett explores an essential contradiction about modernism and modernity: that there is often nostalgia for a cultural movement that, by definition, eschews nostalgia. He leans into contemporary debates about whether ‘recent past’ buildings and other modernist technologies such as the vinyl LP should be preserved and embraced while presenting his arguments in prose that is polished, confident, and a pleasure to read.”--Rachel Weber, author of From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago