"The Gold Coast and the Slum" by Harvey Zorbaugh (equal, area)
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Has anyone ever read this study from 1929? Zorbaugh was a sociologist from the Chicago School who was fascinated with the financial and cultural disparities within the same "community" on the Near North Side of Chicago. At the time, Chicago's wealthiest elite and its poorest could be found in the same square mile of the North Side: "East of State Street lies the Gold Coast, Chicago's most exclusive residential district, turning its face to the lake and its back upon what may lie west toward the river. West of State Street lies a nondescript area of furnished rooms: Clark Street, the Rialto of the half-world; 'Little Sicily,' the slum" (7). If you were to profile the single most unequal square mile in your city, where would it be and how would you describe it? What streets divide the "haves" from the "have-nots"?
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