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The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago ...continued from page 35
intent is to raise property values and rents, while specifically displacing unwelcomed low-income nonwhite families and businesses. In Hyde Park where perfectly good buildings were demolished while I was living there, we knew that so-called urban renewal in Chicago meant Negro removal— sending the Blacks back to the other side of Stony Island Avenue as the de facto racial dividing line in that part of the city. Itwasnot uncommon tobeoutsideon a side street engaged in a conversation with an interracial group of residents, and have white Chicago police officers accuse us of loitering and threaten us with arrest if we did not disperse. The powers that be had apparently made parts of Chicago Constitution-free zones. Daniel Kay Hertz captures these racial and class disparities and tensions in his well-written, step-by-step narrative that focuses on dissecting “urban renewal” in the context of the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. The Battle Is About Discrimination Hertz provides an insightful case study of how communities emerge and thrive (or not), particularly amid the deliberate persistence of racial
for a college education to attain one. The Lincoln Park Battle Is About Housing Some college towns and campuses do better than others in providing decent student housing.When I visited a cousin attending the University of Wisconsin in Madison, the apartment he shared with around five other fellow students was in a building that was boarded up in the front. There was at least one apartment in Hyde Park that I shared with two other female students plus families of pigeons in the rear of the apartment. I saw no slums when I lived in Ann Arbor, a wonderful and relatively affordable city for renters where the main campus of the University of Michigan is located. The city strictly regulates the condition of buildings and the number of individuals permitted in a specified square footage of living space. The Battle Is Over Who Has Access to the Housing The process of gentrification entails buying and renovating housing and stores in so-called deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle- income families and individuals. The
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