:spatiality and politics in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.
David Wilson, Jared Wouters, & Dennis Grammenos. (2004). Environment and Planning A, 36, 1173-1190. DOI:10.1068/a36121
The authors note Pilsen as one nationally notable case where gentrification continues to be successfully resisted by residents. They pointed out positive resident identities, and clear enemies of the current neighborhood as the main reasons.
Also, they pointed out the discourse that PPC (Protect Pilsen Coalition) promoted as one of the causes: promoting the current idealized Pilsen, a unique sense of community, and arguing for protecting the timeless and ideal ethnic space from outsiders, to the contrary to the comment by developers, describing Pilsen as a crime-riddern slum.
[DOES THIS DISCOURSE by PPC hide crime? Or crime was overrated?]
Meanwhile, local governments see Pilsen as a potential for making the city a diverse ethnic city.
"preserving this ethnicity is the key. It is our job to identify [this], capture [this], and sell [this]''
(discussion with the Office of Tourism representative Patricia Sullivan, 8 July 2002, cited on page 1186).
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