A R E A

City as Lab

• Inheriting the Grid #6
  Daniel Tucker
• City as Policy Lab
  Jamie Peck | Neil Brenner | Nik Theodore
• General Bibliography
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• Linking the policy experiments of Ren2010 and the Plan for Transformation
  Pauline Lipman The connections between public housing and public schools might not be obvious, yet their dissolution are part of similar trajectories in our city.
• Snuggle up to the Commercial Club of Chicago
  Beth Gutelius | Lisa Sousa It is easy to generalize about the economic elite running the show, now find out who the local business leaders that do all those public/private partnerships really are and where they hangout together.
• Schooling in Disaster Capitalism
  Kenneth J. Saltman Explore how the political right is using disaster to privatize public schooling in Chicago and throughout the US.
• The Horner Model
  William Wilen You know that the Chicago Housing Authority’s current streak of demolitions has been a disaster on many levels, find out about a different model for how public housing could be overhauled.
• Foreclosures in Chicago
  Michael Van Zalingen Michael Van Zalingen, of Neighborhood Housing Services, on tracking the recent mortgage bubble burst on the ground in Chicago.
• From Perception to Policy
  Brian Holmes

  On Chicago School of Sociology’s Influence on Urban Planning Policy

  
  
• The City That Doesn’t Work
  Aaron Sarver
• Growth Machine Gone Global
  Nick Kreitman For years Chicago activists have argued for more neighborhood over downtown development. This text argues that that debate needs to be updated with new analysis.
• Back to Basics
  Ryan Hollon In this interview with Vinay Ravi, a lead organizer for UNITE-HERE Local 1, we learn about unionization and its connection to other forms of politics in Chicago.
• The Economic Life Sentence: Introduction to the Low-Wage Labor Market
  Ryan Hollon
• Learning from LA
  Aaron Sarver In this interview with local labor researcher and activist Virginia Park we learn about the differences between LA’s successful campaigns for a living wage compared with our failures here in Chicago.
• Odelay Yonquero
  Nic Halverson You’ve seen the overloaded trucks whizzing through your alley, now spend a day in the life of two scrap metal haulers.
• Introducing: precarity : chicago
  Tim Sarrantonio
• An Introduction to CPS
  Therese Quinn
• Notes on the Political Economy of Chicago Charter Schools
  Eric Triantafillou

  As Charter Schools evolve there are internal contradictions that need to be examined. This text introduces some of the basic debates around the emergence of Charter schools and what kinds of struggles we can watch out for in the future.

  
  
• Boiler Room Pedagogy
  Kenzo Shibata In an attempt to quantify everything that occurs within its structure, Chicago Public Schools has gradually adopted new data driven evaluation systems for nearly everyone involved.
• Military in CPS
  Erica Meiners | Therese Quinn An introduction to how the Military became so prevalent in our public schools and what some activists are doing about it.
• Redoing the City of Neighborhoods
  Jesse Mumm
• A Citywide Interview
  Amelia Ramos | Diana Cruz | Erika Mikkalo | Euan Hague | Helena Marie Carnes-Jeffries | Jesse Mumm | Jim Nelson | Margo Coulter | Marisel Melendez | Peter Zelchenko | Sonjanita Moore Presenting 10 replies to our question “How long have you lived in Chicago and what has changed the most and the least here in Chicago over that time period?”
• Speculative Landscape: Signs of the Times
  Jason Reblando An ongoing photo essay. The first part was featured in AREA Chicago #3. 
• Special Insert: Notes for a People’s History of Chicago
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• Illustrations by Neil Brideau
  Neil Brideau