As I look back on my time in Chicago, I find myself wistfully recounting my experiences with the Puerto Rican Cultural Center and in the Northwest Side in general. Not to be maudlin, but the portion of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago that reads “show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive…
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The Right to the City
Upon receiving the summer syllabus, it seemed so fitting that one of the prompts for the Gallatin Global Fellowship in Urban Practice blog posts invoked David Harvey’s iconic “Right to the City” piece from the New Left Review. Given that I have spent the summer working with the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, a group whose…
