On the Road to the In-Between City

What is it about?

This paper critically engages the uneven distribution of infrastructure provision, connectivity and mobility by uncovering the path-dependent trajectories and politics of transportation in post-suburban Chicago.

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Why is it important?

Departing from contemporary debates on the geography of urban peripheries, I utilise a relational theory of the ‘in-between city’ to empirically examine the evolution of the ‘Zwischenstadt’ in a North American context. Through a longue dure´e case study of Chicago’s ‘Crosstown Corridor’, in-between urbanisation is demonstrated to express an on-going multiscalar mediation of co-habiting modes of urbanism and strategic state actions that challenge generalised (sub)urbanisation narratives.