Chicago's walls vainly attempted to seal off the Black Belt from Mayor Daley's Bridgeport.
Jerusalem's walls of condominiums replaced the Crusaders ancient walls. These housing walls were built after 1967 to seal off the old city from the Palestinians.
In Belfast, a "peace wall" separates Catholics from Protestants.
In Berlin, high rises paralleled the wall, reinforcing the division of a city with architecture.
CrJ 539 and UPP 596
Contested Cities.Chicago, Belfast, Berlin, and Jerusalem
A course co-taught by John Hagedorn from the Department of Criminal Justice
and David Perry in Urban Planning and Policy that addresses the conditions
of persistent ethno-racial violence in the “contested cities”
of Belfast, Chicago,
Jerusalem and Berlin. Using real
time computer teleconferencing, students will join fellow students and
faculty in the other cities to study the forces of ethno-religious /communal
conflict that persistently divide cities and the conditions of state planning
and policy which have exacerbated as much as ameliorated such conditions.
Each city in the course represents a different set of these communal and
state forces. Students will learn about the intractability of these conditions,
whether such communally-produced conflicts are the product of particular
urban histories or whether they portend a new environment of violence,
contestation produced by “angry young men” and state ineffectiveness,
for cities in a global era.
Contact David Perry at 312-996-8874 or 312-355-3926 or dperry@uic.edu.
Contact John Hagedorn at Great Cities Institute at 312-996-8700 or 312-413-2472
huk@uic.edu.
These pages will publish pictures of the walls of cities and documents concerning "contested cities." Contributions of articles, pictures, or thoughts are appreciated. Just email us.
Diego Rivera on Contested Cities