City as Lab
A local reader on experimental policies on the ground in Chicago.
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The connections between public housing and public schools might not be obvious, yet their dissolution are part of similar trajectories in our city.
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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.
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Explore how the political right is using disaster to privatize public schooling in Chicago and throughout the US.
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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.
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Michael Van Zalingen, of Neighborhood Housing Services, on tracking the recent mortgage bubble burst on the ground in Chicago.
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On Chicago School of Sociology’s Influence on Urban Planning Policy
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You’ve seen the overloaded trucks whizzing through your alley, now spend a day in the life of two scrap metal haulers.
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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.
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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.
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An introduction to how the Military became so prevalent in our public schools and what some activists are doing about it.
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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?”
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An ongoing photo essay. The first part was featured in AREA Chicago #3.
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