Silencing in growth discourse does not seek to eradicate opposition and resistance, but rather seeks to manage these through discursive practices that portray critical voices as “anti-progress”, “insignificant” and, as in our case study of Chicago's South Side, as “racist.”
— Silencing, Urban Growth Machines, and the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago's South Side
Tilman Schwarze and David Wilson, Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
growth machines tell us growth is good for us, like traders say greed is good— and for the traders of the growth machine, it is.
they use race to gentrify the place. urban removal.
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