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Introduction: Revisiting “The City”: the social production of urban space in Chicago

Introduction: Revisiting “The City”: the social production of urban space in Chicago an Douglas and Grand Blvd. Little Village Southwest Side Bridgeview Introduction Introduction: Revisiting “The City”: the social production of urban space in Chicago KATHLEEN BUBINAS University of Wisconsin—Waukesha he study of the relationship between urban space and human populations began in earnest in the early 1900s under the rubric of the emerging discipline of sociology at the University of Chicago. Known as the Chicago School, these early sociologists focused on understanding the city through the study of the local “urban community” and the European immigrants who flowed into an industrializing Chicago in numbers still unmatched. These early urban scientists were interested in understanding the dynamics that influenced patterns of human geography and social organization. The Chicago School’s theoretical concept of the city as a series of human ecological zones competing for survival remains one of the first systematic attempts to examine the explanatory power of urban space. Despite its shortcomings, the Chicago School “represented the most serious attempt to make a spatial specificity of urbanism both a focus for theory-building and a rich domain for empirical and practically applicable research in the social sciences” (Soja 2000:89). A central theme in the research undertaken by the Chicago School was http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Introduction: Revisiting “The City”: the social production of urban space in Chicago

BUBINAS, KATHLEEN
City & Society , Volume 17 (2) – Dec 1, 2005
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an Douglas and Grand Blvd. Little Village Southwest Side Bridgeview Introduction Introduction: Revisiting “The City”: the social production of urban space in Chicago KATHLEEN BUBINAS University of Wisconsin—Waukesha he study of the relationship between urban space and human populations began in earnest in the early 1900s under the rubric of the emerging discipline of sociology at the University of Chicago. Known as the Chicago School, these early sociologists focused on understanding the city through the study of the local “urban community” and the European immigrants who flowed into an industrializing Chicago in numbers still unmatched. These early urban scientists were interested in understanding the dynamics that influenced patterns of human geography and social organization. The Chicago School’s theoretical concept of the city as a series of human ecological zones competing for survival remains one of the first systematic attempts to examine the explanatory power of urban space. Despite its shortcomings, the Chicago School “represented the most serious attempt to make a spatial specificity of urbanism both a focus for theory-building and a rich domain for empirical and practically applicable research in the social sciences” (Soja 2000:89). A central theme in the research undertaken by the Chicago School was

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