Making the third ghetto

Bibliographic Data

ID19003633
AuthorsPreston H Smith (Mount Holyoke College, corresponding author), Larry Bennett (0000-0003-2264-7596, DePaul University), Rob Paral (University of Illinois Chicago)
Year2021
Volume2
Issue1
Pages93-111
Publication date2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Race Ethnicity and the City (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2688-4674 • E-ISSN: 2688-4682
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/26884674.2021.1898293
OpenAlexW3159489478
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited41

Chicago’s third ghetto is a cluster of “thinned out,” outlying neighborhoods that resulted from the demolition of public housing in “second ghetto” neighborhoods surrounding the central business district. The third ghetto shares some of the characteristics of the first and second ghettos—namely, the racial and economic segregation of the resident population. However, it also reveals notable, contemporary features. While the second ghetto was not deprived of public investment such as CHA developments, schools, police stations, and other public works, the third ghetto, in contrast, is a vacuum of private and public investment. It is also increasingly separated, spatially, from neighborhoods of rising prosperity. This disinvestment has created the underlying conditions for poor and working-class Black residents to feel either heavily policed or abandoned. This article traces the national and local sources of the neoliberal urban reforms of the 1990s and 2000s that ushered in a third ghetto in Chicago

Disinvestment · Economic growth · Economics · Foreign direct investment · Political science · Population · Prosperity · Public housing · Public investment · Sociology · Demography · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies