TY - BOOK ID - 138101243 TI - The Origins of the Dual City : Housing, Race, and Redevelopment in Twentieth-Century Chicago PY - 2019 SN - 022666161X PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Housing policy KW - Urban policy KW - Urban renewal KW - Slums KW - Black people KW - Discrimination in housing KW - History KW - Segregation KW - Chicago (Ill.) KW - Social policy. KW - Politics and government KW - Chicago. KW - gentrification. KW - policy paradigms. KW - race. KW - slums. KW - urban redevelopment. KW - urban renewal. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138101243 AB - Chicago is celebrated for its rich diversity, but, even more than most US cities, it is also plagued by segregation and extreme inequality. More than ever, Chicago is a "dual city," a condition taken for granted by many residents. In this book, Joel Rast reveals that today's tacit acceptance of rising urban inequality is a marked departure from the past. For much of the twentieth century, a key goal for civic leaders was the total elimination of slums and blight. Yet over time, as anti-slum efforts faltered, leaders shifted the focus of their initiatives away from low-income areas and toward the upgrading of neighborhoods with greater economic promise. As misguided as postwar public housing and urban renewal programs were, they were born of a long-standing reformist impulse aimed at improving living conditions for people of all classes and colors across the city-something that can't be said to be a true priority for many policymakers today. The Origins of the Dual City illuminates how we normalized and became resigned to living amid stark racial and economic divides. ER -