Pierre ClavelActivists in City Hall makes the case that progressive cities delivered a product in the 1980s. Chicago and Boston were progressive when they tackled inequality head-on. Boston established “linkage” – channeling developer contributions into an affordable …
I’ve done a series of lectures the last three months about Activists in City Hall, increasingly less about Boston and rather focusing on Chicago’s local “industrial policy.” These lectures were at the University of Illinois -Urbana-Champaign, …
Q2 – What is “progressive” in the Progressive City? [Posted by Pierre Clavel — Adapted in part from Activists in City Hall (2010) and The Progressive City (1986) [i] ] What do we mean by “progressive?” …