Rachel Weber

Rachel Weber is a professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her latest book, From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2015), won the Best Book award from the Urban Affairs Association.

Reviews

Infrastructure Financing and the Bonds of Inequality

Rachel Weber - 19 October 2021
Rachel Weber reviews historian Destin Jenkins’ new book, The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the...
From the Field

Sale of the Century: Chicago’s Infrastructure Deals and the Privatization State

Philip Ashton & Marc Doussard & Rachel Weber - 24 November 2020
Since 2004, the City of Chicago has been engaged in a new wave of infrastructure privatizations, selling...

En français

Terrains

La vente du siècle. Infrastructures et gouvernement de la privatisation à Chicago

Philip Ashton & Marc Doussard & Rachel Weber & translated by Liz Libbrecht - 19 November 2020
La ville de Chicago s’est lancée depuis 2004 dans une vague de privatisation de ses infrastructures, cédées à des...

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