- Wksp: Chicago: The Urban Environment as Policy Text

Catalog description

The way that Chicago looks and feels is, in part, due to decades of policy decisions which have created the City as we know it today. This workshop seeks to lift the veil on the ways in which policy shapes even the most minute details of the urban environment and creates geographic inequalities. Urban space is constantly changing, and the possibilities for those changes are shaped by local, state, and national policy. Understanding how to read urban space as a policy text will assist students in analyzing individual- and community-level outcomes.