The New Chicago School
The New Chicago School
Notes toward a Theory
This chapter explores how the city of Chicago has encouraged a distinct flavor in the research and theorizing about cities by persons who have done time in Chicago’s environs. It considers how these ideas may be joined together as components of a new Chicago School. It identifies eight axial points for research in Chicago and beyond. These are (i) conceptualizing the city as pluralistic, diverse, and filled with competing subcultures; (ii) recognizing that no city represents the nation or the world; (iii) recognizing that culturally strong neighborhoods remain separate from the workplace; (iv) using multiple research methods such as in-depth cases, oral history, ethnography, content analysis, archival history, voting behavior, etc.; (v) including the entire metropolitan area; (vi) featuring consumption; (vii) recognizing that race and ethnicity and subcultural conflicts are normal dimensions of urban life, and they are mediated through political processes; and (viii) recognizing that globalization is a source of change in many urban dynamics.
Keywords: Chicago School, urban theory, urbanism, urban studies
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