1) How does Bennett understand the notion of the neighborhood? Is it “real,” symbolic, fabricated? 2) Using the first half of the book by Doering, Us Versus Them, what is going on in Uptown and Rogers Park? Who and what are the factions? Is it true that neighborhoods are contested spaces? By whom, for what reasons? 3. What one issue seems to tie these readings together? What is the common theme or most significant problem that they are facing?
