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The
Battle
of
Lincoln
Park Urban Renewal
and
Gentrification
in
Chicago
Description
A brief cogent analysis of gentrification in
Chicagoan
incisive and
useful narrative on the puzzle of urban
developmentKirkus ReviewsIn the years after World
War II a movement began to bring the middle class
back from the Chicago suburbs to the Lincoln Park
neighborhood on the citys North Side In place of
the old poorly
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maintained apartments and dense streetscapes of
taverns and butchers rehabbers imagined a new
kind of neighborhooda renovated modern community
that held on to the convenience diversity and
character of a historic urban quarter but also
enjoyed the prosperity and privileges of a new
subdivisionBut as the old buildings came down
cheap studios were combined to create ever more
spacious luxurious homes Property values swiftly
rose and the people who were being evicted to
make room for progress began to assert their own
ideas about the future of Lincoln Park Over the
course of the s divisions within the community
deepened Letters and picket lines gave way to
increasingly violent strikes and counterstrikes
as each camp tried to settle the same existential
questions that beguile so many cities today Who
is a neighborhood for And who gets to decideA
riveting historical look at gentrification and
urban renewal projects that still resonates
across every American city today