Neoliberal chicago /

The Chicago metropolitan area in the early 21st century is a prime testing ground for the broad concepts and particular approaches to public policy associated with Neoliberalism. Over a span of 25 years Chicago's municipal government has closed public schools and supported the formation of char...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, 2016
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: Chicago: Neoliberal City; Part I. Context; Chapter 1. Class and Race-Ethnicity in a Changing City: A Historical Perspective on Inequalities; Chapter 2. Metropolitan Chicago's Geography of Inequality; Chapter 3. Contemporary Chicago Politics: Myth, Reality, and Neoliberalism; Part II. Neoliberal Visions; Chapter 4. Urban Sustainability and the "Greening" of Neoliberal Chicago; Chapter 5. Sports and Blue-Collar Mythology in Neoliberal Chicago; Part III. Neoliberal Spaces; Chapter 6. Remaking Chicago's Industrial Spaces.
  • Chapter 7. Becoming "Boystown" in Neoliberal Chicago: A Critical Urban Morphology of the North Halsted-Broadway CorridorChapter 8. Historic Preservation in a Neoliberal Context: From the Medinah Temple to Bloomingdale's; Part IV. Neoliberal Processes; Chapter 9. Neighborhood Impacts of the Foreclosure Crisis; Chapter 10. The Chicago Bid to Host the 2016 Olympics: Much Promised, Little Learned; Chapter 11. Surveillance, Security, and Intelligence-Led Policing in Chicago; Conclusion: Beyond Neoliberal Chicago; The Contributors; Index.