The New Chicago

by Koval, John P.; Bennett, Larry; Bennett, Michael Isaiah; Demissie, Fassil; Garner, Roberta

• ISBN13: 9781592130887
• ISBN10: 1592130887
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-28
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

For generations, visitors, journalists, and social scientists alike have asserted that Chicago is the quintessentially American city. Indeed, the introduction toThe New Chicagoreminds us that "to know America, you must know Chicago." The authors boldly announce the demise of the city of broad shoulders and the transformation of its physical, social, cultural, and economic institutions into a new Chicago. In this wide-ranging book, twenty scholars, journalists, and activists, relying on data from the 2000 census and many years of direct experience with the city, identify five converging forces in American urbanization which are reshaping this storied metropolis. The twenty-six essays included here analyze Chicago by way of globalization and its impact on the contemporary city; economic restructuring; the evolution of machine-style politics into managerial politics; physical transformations of the central city and its suburbs; and race relations in a multicultural era. In elaborating on the effects of these broad forces, contributors detail the role of eight significant racial, ethnic, and immigrant communities in shaping the character of the new Chicago and present ten case studies of innovative governmental, grassroots, and civic action. Multi-faceted and authoritative,The New Chicagooffers an important and unique portrait of an emergent and new 'Windy City'.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART I. INTRODUCTION
An Overview and Point of View	3	(16)
John P. Koval
PART II. CONVERGING FORCES
Globalization and the Remaking of Chicago	19	(13)
Fassil Demissie
Economic Restructuring: Chicago's Precarious Balance	32	(12)
David Moberg
Chicago's New Politics of Growth	44	(12)
Larry Bennett
The Physical Transformation of Metropolitan Chicago	56	(26)
Chicago's Central Area	56	(21)
Charles S. Suchar
The Emergent Suburban Landscape	77	(5)
Kenneth Fidel
Race Relations Chicago Style: Past, Present, and Future	82	(15)
Michael I. J. Bennett
Richard T. Schaefer
PART III. THE IMMIGRANT PRESENCE
Chicago: The Immigrant Capital of the Heartland	97	(8)
John P. Koval
Kenneth Fidel
Latinos of the New Chicago	105	(10)
Rob Paral
New Chicago Polonia: Urban and Suburban	115	(13)
Mary Patrice Erdmans
Asian Indians in Chicago	128	(13)
Padma Rangaswamy
Re-Visioning Filipino American Communities: Evolving Identities, Issues, and Organizations	141	(13)
Yvonne M. Lau
The Korean Presence in Chicago	154	(14)
Kiljoong Kim
Chicago's Chinese Americans: From Chinatown and Beyond	168	(14)
Yvonne M. Lau
Immigrants from the Arab World	182	(15)
Louise Cainkar
Immigrants at Work	197	(16)
John P. Koval
PART IV. CONTESTED REINVENTION AND CIVIC AGENCY: TEN CASE STUDIES
The Rebirth of Bronzeville: Contested Space and Contrasting Visions	213	(8)
Michael I. J. Bennett
Devon Avenue: A World Market	221	(10)
Padma Rangaswamy
The Affordable Housing Crisis in the Chicago Region	231	(8)
Aurie A. Pinneck
Howard Stanback
Back to Its Roots: The Industrial Areas Foundation and United Power for Action and Justice	239	(9)
David Moberg
Chicago School Reform: Advancing the Global City Agenda	248	(11)
Pauline Lipman
Police and the Globalizing City: Innovation and Contested Reinvention	259	(10)
David Plebanski
Roberta Garner
Transforming Public Housing	269	(8)
Larry Bennett
Regionalism in a Historically Divided Metropolis	277	(9)
Larry Bennett
Coalition Politics at America's Premier Transportation Hub	286	(9)
Joseph Schwieterman
Urban Beautification: The Construction of a New Identity in Chicago	295	(10)
Costas Spirou
PART V. CONCLUSION
Learning from Chicago	305	(14)
Roberta Garner
References	319	(22)
About the Contributors	341	(2)
Index	343