Chicago’s Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs
This book examines the conflict surrounding the latest redevelopment frontier in Chicago: the city’s South Side blues clubs and blocks. Like Chicago, cities such as Cleveland, St. Louis, Boston, Washington D.C., Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia are experiencing a new redevelopment machine: one of tyrannizing and fear. Its actors are adroit at working via the creation of fear to “terror-redevelop” in these historically neglected neighborhoods. The book also discusses the powerful race and class-based politics in Chicago’s blues clubs that resist such change. A “leisure as resistance” framework represents the latest innovative form of opposition to the transformation of these historic sites.
| Autor: | Wilson, David |
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| ISBN: | 9783319708171 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 208 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 15.02.2018 |
| Schlagworte: | American Cities Chicago Gentrification Redevelopment Redevelopment Planning Urban Planning Urban Studies Urban Transformation |
David Wilson is Professor of Geography, Urban Planning, African American Studies, and Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.