The Origins of the Dual City : Housing, Race, and Redevelopment in Twentieth-Century Chicago / Joel Rast.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rast, Joel, Author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing policy--Illinois--Chicago.

Housing policy.

Urban policy--Illinois--Chicago.

Urban policy.

Urban renewal--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.

Urban renewal.

Slums--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.

Slums.

Black people--Segregation--Illinois--Chicago.

Black people.

Discrimination in housing--Illinois--Chicago.

Discrimination in housing.

Chicago (Ill.)--Social policy.

Chicago (Ill.).

Chicago (Ill.)--Politics and government--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. More than ever, Chicago is a "dual city," a condition taken for granted by many residents. In this book, Joel Rast reveals that today's tacit acceptance of rising urban inequality is a marked departure from the past. For much of the twentieth century, a key goal for civic leaders was the total elimination of slums and blight. Yet over time, as anti-slum efforts faltered, leaders shifted the focus of their initiatives away from low-income areas and toward the upgrading of neighborhoods with greater economic promise. As misguided as postwar public housing and urban renewal programs were, they were born of a long-standing reformist impulse aimed at improving living conditions for people of all classes and colors across the city-something that can't be said to be a true priority for many policymakers today. The Origins of the Dual City illuminates how we normalized and became resigned to living amid stark racial and economic divides.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. How Policy Paradigms Change

2. Housing Reform in the Private City

3. A Formula for Urban Redevelopment

4. Creating a Unified Business Elite

5. New Institutions for a New Governing Agenda

6. The Attack on the Slums

7. The New Convergence of Power

8. Learning to Live with the Slums

Conclusion

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226661612

022666161X

OCLC:

1124616789