Space for Whom? Negotiating Displacement and Development: the Obama Presidential Center and the South Side CBA Coalition

This study focuses on the spatial claims that the Obama Foundation and South Side Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) Coalition make regarding the Obama Presidential Center, in the context of Jackson Park, the Woodlawn neighborhood, and the wider South Side. The study analyzes the public discourse of these two groups to investigate their geographical assertions, visions, and the ways in which they justify and legitimize their claims.