Larry Bennett

A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Larry Bennett earned his Ph.D. in Urban Planning at Rutgers University. In 2017 he retired from the Political Science Department at DePaul University, where he had taught for four decades. Over the course of his career Larry Bennett has researched neighborhoods in New York City, Chicago, and Sheffield, England. His writing on cities has touched on many topics and locales but focused on urban redevelopment policies and the evolution of contemporary neighborhoods. In addition to Reclaiming Modernity, Larry Bennett’s books include Neighborhood Politics: Chicago and Sheffield, The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism, It’s Hardly Sportin’: Stadiums, Neighborhoods, and the New Chicago (co-author: Costas Spirou), Where Are Poor People to Live?: Transforming Public Housing Communities (co-editors: Janet Smith and Patricia Wright), and Neoliberal Chicago (co-editors: Roberta Garner and Euan Hague). Larry Bennett has served on the editorial boards of Urban Affairs Review and the Journal of Urban Affairs, and since 2007 he has co-edited Temple University Press’ Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy book series. Since his retirement from DePaul University, Larry Bennett has served, initially, as Interim Director of North Branch Works, a Chicago non-profit economic development advocacy group, and from 2019 as Chair of North Branch Works’ Board of Directors.