Structuring inequality: how schooling, housing, and tax policies shaped metropolitan development and education

Introduction: Structuring inequality in Chicagoland

Part I: Forging metropolitan inequality. The state policies that define localism, public schools, and fragmentation in the suburbs ; Chicago's postwar development agenda : using schools, land-use tools, and public subsidies to protect white property

Part II: Fighting over metropolitan inequality. Fighting Chicago school segregation : the battles to define Northern segregation, government responsibility, and public priorities ; Varieties of school desegregation : defining state responsibility and protecting white interests in the fragmented suburbs ; The fight to open the suburbs : Fair- and affordable-housing advocacy and the suburban defense of metropolitan inequality ; School-finance and property-tax reform : trying to expand state fiscal responsibility and equity in local finance

Part III: Forgetting metropolitan inequality. The policy origins and effects of fiscal crisis : taxation, austerity, and business-first economic development in Chicagoland ; From equity to measurable standards : reshaping public policy and forgetting inequality in a neoliberal age

Conclusion: What does this history mean for the present and the future?