9781948742092-1948742098-The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago

The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago

ISBN-13: 9781948742092
ISBN-10: 1948742098
Author: Daniel Kay Hertz
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Format: Paperback 160 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781948742092
ISBN-10: 1948742098
Author: Daniel Kay Hertz
Publication date: 2018
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Format: Paperback 160 pages

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The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago (ISBN-13: 9781948742092 and ISBN-10: 1948742098), written by authors Daniel Kay Hertz, was published by Belt Publishing in 2018. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Urban & Land Use Planning (Architecture, State & Local, United States History, Housing & Urban Development, Administrative Law, Urban Planning & Development, Social Sciences, Urban, Sociology) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Urban & Land Use Planning books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.46.

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In 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 city's North Side. In place of the old, poorly maintained apartments and dense streetscapes of taverns and butchers, “rehabbers” imagined a new kind of neighborhood―a 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 subdivision.

But as the old buildings came down, cheap studios were combined to create ever more spacious, luxurious homes. Property values rose swiftly, and the people who were evicted to make room for progress began to assert their own ideas about the future of Lincoln Park. Over the course of the 1960s, 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 this neighborhood for? And who gets to decide?

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