GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Urban Renewal, Concentrated Poverty, Urban Studies
5 Dec 2018
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The condo boom and the creative and neoliberal city. This story provides more context for regent park"s development and downfall! Remember: i suggested this large-scale public housing development was not unique! Post wwii: na cities concerned with reformist urban renewal developments. In chicago, reformist urban renewal produced cabrini green (built 1940s-1960s) Regent + cabrini, parallel facts: post wwii large scale urban renewal projects, high-rise and interspersed with lawn/green, proximity to cbd, isolationist", significant racialized populations, regarded as failures", redeveloped after 1990s ( twice cleared") A jeff recommendation: a film that makes public housing a major character"! In some ways, the villain is poorly designed and badly maintained housing that created communities of concentrated poverty and trapped people within them. They show us what ill- conceived policy looks like in its physical form" (pimpare, 2017,p. [in the united states] a massive state-capital collaboration featur[ed] a federally mandated program of urban renewal in the interests of downtown private redevelopment" (lott, 2017: 28).
