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Lost in the Shuffle: the future of traditional public housing under the CHA's Plan for Transformation (2014)
The Chicago Housing Authority launched the Plan for Transformation, aiming to demolish public housing and to force former residents into mixed-income housing. Initiated in 1999, the Plan for Transformation has long lasting ripple effects in South…
Jackson Park in the Past and Present: Major Points of Change and their Impact on Local Communities (2018)
Jackson Park has been an integral public space in Chicago’s South Side for over a century. As the site of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, the park began its existence as the place where Chicago introduced itself to the world. Since then, several major…
Get Off My Woodlawn: Community Organizing in Woodlawn in Response to the Obama Presidential Center (2020)
Community organizing has often been used in the City of Chicago to advocate for local interests. Woodlawn, a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, has a particularly rich history of organizing in order to achieve policy change and elevate the…
Space for Whom? Negotiating Displacement and Development: the Obama Presidential Center and the South Side CBA Coalition (2018)
This study focuses on the spatial claims that the Obama Foundation and South Side Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) Coalition make regarding the Obama Presidential Center, in the context of Jackson Park, the Woodlawn neighborhood, and the wider…
White Minds, Red Lines: The University of Chicago and Racial Capitalism from 1925 to 1940 (2019)
This thesis examines the University of Chicago’s relationship to its neighbors from 1925 to 1940. During this period, the “Chicago School” sociologists Ernest Burgess, Robert Park, and Louis Wirth published research on the city which legitimized…