In response to an article by Evan McKenzie in the December 14, 2000, issue of Chicago Journal, Professor Steven Balkin writes that "UIC's expansion is not new urbanism. It is the old discredited policy of 1960's style Urban Renewal equals People Removal, i.e., poor and minority people removal. The South Campus Expansion is not gentrification through the free market forces of supply and demand, as McKenzie asserts. This area is being developed by central government planning, built by contractors with strong ties to Mayor Daley, heavily subsidized by government, and with the use of the power of eminent domain." He says it is more like "the policies of Slobodan Milosvec in what is called Ethnic Cleansing."
Steve Balkin is a Professor of Economics at Roosevelt University in Chicago and Vice President of the Maxwell Street Historic Preservation Coalition. Read his entire letter.
Evan McKenzie teaches political science at the University of Illinois
at Chicago. Go to his web site.
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