Chicago's Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs

• Main Author: Wilson, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Sociology, Urban.; Urban geography.; Human geography.; Public policy.; Economic geography.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Human Geography.; Public Policy.; Economic Geography.
• Physical Description: XIII, 208 p. 7 illus., 6 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319708188
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70818-8

This book examines the conflict surrounding the latest redevelopment frontier in Chicago: the city's South Side blues clubs and blocks. Like Chicago, cities such as Cleveland, St. Louis, Boston, Washington D.C., Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia are experiencing a new redevelopment machine: one of tyrannizing and fear. Its actors are adroit at working via the creation of fear to "terror-redevelop" in these historically neglected neighborhoods. The book also discusses the powerful race and class-based politics in Chicago's blues clubs that resist such change. A "leisure as resistance" framework represents the latest innovative form of opposition to the transformation of these historic sites.