The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood

by Carlo Rotella

Book Overview

An urban neighborhood remakes itself every day--and unmakes itself, too. Houses and stores and streets define it in one way. But it's also people--the people who make it their home, some eagerly, others grudgingly. A neighborhood can thrive or it can decline, and neighbors move in and move out. Sometimes they stay but withdraw behind fences and burglar alarms. If a neighborhood becomes no longer a place of sociability and street life, but of privacy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022662403X
• ISBN13: 9780226624037
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"