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City of Chicago Community Areas
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Urban Pattern of Crime Burgess Concentric Zone Model
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Robery Taylor homes
-public housing development completed in 1962.
-It was names after Robert Taylor, an African-American activist and a Chicago housing authority board member.
-It was composed of 28 high-rise buildings with 16 stories each, and a total of 4,415 units, arranged in U-shaped clusters of three.
-it was planned for 11,000 inhabitants, but at peak it housed 27,000 people.
-it was intended to offer for decent affordable housing. -
Displacement of the African-American Communities (Chicago Ghetto)
-Displacement is mainly due to the gentrification of the inner city areas.
-Robert Taylor homes.
-Gentrification causing high concentration of African-Americans communities in the West and south of the city -
The Changing face of Homicide in Chicago.
-Most prevalent in areas with a high concentration of African-Americans, areas of disinvestment and areas of segration