1st Edition

Neighborhood Politics Chicago and Sheffield

By Larry Bennett Copyright 1997
    284 Pages
    by Routledge

    284 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1997. This book is the outcome of a small project that grew and grew. In the fall of 1990 the Chicago-based Policy Research Action Group (PRAG) commissioned the author to do a study of the Uptown area, to which he had moved in 1988.lMeanwhile, in conjunction with his university's Foreign Study Program, he spent the fall of 1991 in Sheffield, England.

    Chapter 1 Neighborhoods, Community, and Grassroots Action; Chapter 2 Comet and Hearth Flame, Cauldron and Cup of Tea; Chapter 3 Urban Renewal in Uptown; Chapter 4 Sheffield Comes to Sharrow; Chapter 5 Sharrow in the 1980s: The Trials of Community Development; Chapter 6 Uptown after Renewal: Contested Territory, Hotbed of Movements; Chapter 7 Neighborhood Identity, Neighborhood Change, and Grassroots Action; Chapter 8 Uptown, Sharrow, and Beyond;

    Biography

    Larry Bennett