Anarchy’s Neighborhoods: the Formation of a Quadriplex Urban Ecology

Abstract In each of four nearby city areas, residents orient to local centers collective activity in different geographic patterns. a “perimeter” neighborhood, and outsiders are drawn religious retail organizations located on streets that form rectangle. an “intersection” most visible other at agglomeration stores services where two high traffic cross. Residents “in-between” area travel socio-economically culturally neighborhoods centered all directions elsewhere. “contested” geography, rival disagree over who, living where, for what purposes, has the right define neighborhood’s boundaries social identity. These ecologies took shape without coordination yet became interdependent, quadriplex set. After 1965, series retreats government control life created unprecedented opportunities intermediaries who reshaped landscape with new businesses, cultural institutions, interpretations neighborhood This case study revives “collective action” explanations “Chicago School” by showing how urban ecology was transformed late twentieth century as people generations areas interacted indirectly, creating durable patterns centralized, top-down leadership from business or government, response locally recognized affordances anarchy.