Neoliberal Chicago

Larry Bennett is a professor of political science at DePaul University and the author of The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism . Roberta Garner is a professor of sociology at DePaul University and the editor of Social Theory: Continuity and Confrontation . Euan Hague is a professor of geography at DePaul University and a coauthor of Regional and Local Economic Development .

• CoverTitle PageCopyrightContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Chicago: Neoliberal CityPart I: ContextChapter 1. Class and Race-Ethnicity in a Changing City: A Historical Perspective on InequalitiesChapter 2. Metropolitan Chicago's Geography of InequalityChapter 3. Contemporary Chicago Politics: Myth, Reality, and NeoliberalismPart II: Neoliberal VisionsChapter 4. Urban Sustainability and the "Greening" of Neoliberal ChicagoChapter 5. Sports and Blue-Collar Mythology in Neoliberal ChicagoPart III: Neoliberal SpacesChapter 6. Remaking Chicago's Industrial SpacesChapter 7. Becoming "Boystown" in Neoliberal Chicago: A Critical Urban Morphology of the NorthChapter 8. Historic Preservation in a Neoliberal Context: From the Medinah Temple to Bloomingdale'sPart IV. Neoliberal ProcessesChapter 9. Neighborhood Impacts of the Foreclosure CrisisChapter 10. The Chicago Bid to Host the 2016 Olympics: Much Promised, Little LearnedChapter 11. Surveillance, Security, and Intelligence-Led Policing in ChicagoConclusion: Beyond Neoliberal ChicagoThe ContributorsIndex

"Highly recommended."--Choice"A wide-ranging collection of essays examining the divergent pathways of urban change in contemporary Chicago. This is an original and up-to-date account of the ongoing transformation of the city."--Nik Theodore, coauthor of Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism