Rachel Weber is professor in the Urban Planning and Policy Department and a faculty fellow at the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Swords into Dow Shares: Governing the Decline of the Military Industrial Complex and coeditor of the Oxford Handbook for Urban Planning. She was appointed to the Tax Increment Financing Reform Task Force by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

“Weber gives us a compelling book that cements her reputation as one of the top urban planners in the field of urban political economy. Her sophisticated and nuanced understanding of complex systems like global finance and real estate markets is conveyed easily and accessibly to those both inside and outside of academia. From Boom to Bubble is a major contribution, one that will most certainly be widely read and discussed for years to come.”

• Introduction: Why We OverbuildPart 1 Real Estate Speculations1 The Rhythm of Urban Redevelopment2 Fast Money Builds the Speculative City3 Out with the Old: How Professional Practices Construct the Desire for New ConstructionPart 2 Chicago in the 2000s4 Downtown Chicago’s Millennial Boom5 Who Overbuilt Chicago?6 Making the Market for Chicago’s New SkyscrapersPart 3 Building the Future7 The Slow BuildEpilogue: Why We Will Continue to OverbuildAppendixAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

Rachel Weber is professor in the Urban Planning and Policy Department and a faculty fellow at the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Swords into Dow Shares: Governing the Decline of the Military Industrial Complex and coeditor of the Oxford Handbook for Urban Planning. She was appointed to the Tax Increment Financing Reform Task Force by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

“Weber gives us a compelling book that cements her reputation as one of the top urban planners in the field of urban political economy. Her sophisticated and nuanced understanding of complex systems like global finance and real estate markets is conveyed easily and accessibly to those both inside and outside of academia. From Boom to Bubble is a major contribution, one that will most certainly be widely read and discussed for years to come.”

• Introduction: Why We OverbuildPart 1 Real Estate Speculations1 The Rhythm of Urban Redevelopment2 Fast Money Builds the Speculative City3 Out with the Old: How Professional Practices Construct the Desire for New ConstructionPart 2 Chicago in the 2000s4 Downtown Chicago’s Millennial Boom5 Who Overbuilt Chicago?6 Making the Market for Chicago’s New SkyscrapersPart 3 Building the Future7 The Slow BuildEpilogue: Why We Will Continue to OverbuildAppendixAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex