Isolated Buildings as Indicators of Social Change, a Visual Essay

Abstract

This chapter introduces “Isolated Building Studies,” a photographic series that interrogates Chicago's landscape of racial and economic segregation. In order to facilitate comparison, the series features uniform compositions of buildings that do not have neighboring structures. Through the repetition of these buildings and their uncanny settings, viewers are pushed to investigate relationships between these scenes and the social, political, and economic forces that created them.

Citation

Schalliol, D. (2023), "Isolated Buildings as Indicators of Social Change, a Visual Essay", Pauwels, L. (Ed.) Visual and Multimodal Urban Sociology, Part B (Research in Urban Sociology, Vol. 18B), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 171-184. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1047-00422023000018B007