In 1999 the City of Chicago undertook The Plan for Transformation, a redevelopment agenda, that purports to rehabilitate and construct a total of 25,000 new public housing units. This book provides a look at the worldview of the displaced residents: their identity formation, their perceptions of public housing, their thoughts and feelings about redevelopment, their underlying fear of neighborhood gentrification, the cultural myth that perpetuates status value, adult learning, and the implementation of Chicagos transformative plan. As public housing transforms across the country, urban...