Issue 9

AREA Chicago #9 was released November 1st, 2009

Table of Contents

• Masthead
• Bios
• Editorial: Inheriting the Grid #9 by Rebecca Zorach
• Introduction: The Periphery, Differently by Dan S. Wang

Section I Area Calument

• A South Chicago Educational Eco-Activist by Joann Podkul
• U.S. Steel South Works by Charles Vinz
• Shut This Authoritarian Nightmare Down! by Anthony Rayson
• Relative Freedom by Bert Stabler
• Mapping Beverly to Blue Island by Jayne Hileman
• Steel Shavings by James Lane as told to Samuel Barnett
• Somebody Had to Do it as told to Rebecca Zorach
• Metering Resentment by Dinah Ramirez
• Bird Blind by Mara Naselli
• Southeast Environmental Task Force by Carrie Breitbach
• The Making and Remaking of Urban Peripheries by Ryan Hollon and Andrew Greenlee
• Three World Systems Diagrams by Claire Pentecost
• Precious Cargo in the Great Lakes by Paul Sargent
• Ishpeming and Gary by Laurie Palmer
• The Quiet Giant by Quincy Saul
• A Geography of Illinois Wheat by Sarah Kavage
• Inside and Outside the System by Gloria Ortiz with Rebecca Zorach

Section II Circulation: Movement Between Center and Periphery

• Three Part Path by Mike Wolf
• Forming a New Segregation by Stephanie Farmer and Sean Noonan
• Outcast Islands by P. Genesius Durica
• The Legacy of Daniel Burnham by Ashley Weger
• Vicky’s Story by Dale Asis
• The Symmetry of Center and Periphery by Lorenza Perelli
• Blowed-in-the-Glass by P. Genesius Durica

Pedagogy of the Periphery: Mini Section on Curricula

• To Close the City-Suburb Divide by Carol Ng-He
• Bring Your Cell Phone to Art Class by Nicole Marroquin
• Schoolyard Phantoms by Wade Tillett
• Doing Urban Studies from the Suburbs by Steve Macek with Rebecca Zorach
• Teardowns in a North Shore Suburb by Larry Shure
• Suburban Homelessness by Shannon Beaudry
• The Nazis in Skokie by Joey Pizzolato
• Building a White Belt by Brian Schultz
• Chicago and Its Suburbs by Ashley Weger with Chuck Lee
• Just Farming Small Farmers Confederate by Daniel Tucker with David Meyers, Carolyn Thomas, and Sara Jean McHugh
• Victories to Celebrate by Nicolas Lampert
• The Brownlands by Alex Yablan
• Not For Sale by Chase Bracamontes
• History as a Periphery by Serhii Chrucky with Ashley Weger
• Beyond the Borders by Donna Kiser and Erin Moore
• The Left vs. Disability by Beth Gutelius

Section III: Views from the Edge

• Beyond Treatment by Mildred Williamson and Michelle Lugalia
• Cold Storage on the Periphery by Laurie Jo Reynolds
• What Does Peripheral Feminism Mean to You? by Mairead Case with Helen Kiernan, Frank Edwards, Donna Kiser, Bert Stabler, Alexis Finch, Nell Taylor, Melissa Severin, Megan Milks, and Tim Jones-Yelvington
• No more Center, No More Margin by Mathias Regan
• Eyes in the Back of My Head by Mary Patten