City of Rhetoric : Revitalizing the Public Sphere in Metropolitan America

"David Fleming examines the relationship between public discourse and the built environment in the contemporary United States. For more than half a century, low-income African American residents of the Cabrini Green public housing project have struggled against the extreme spatial inequality of their metropolitan region. The author examines three different options considered as part of revitalization efforts for the neighborhood: the dispersal of the project's residents into the largely white suburbs of Chicago; the building of a low-rise, mixed income "urban village" on the same site; and the conversion of one of the original buildings into a democratically governed, not-for profit housing cooperative."--BOOK JACKET.