Legacies and Remnants of the Chicago School

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This chapter outlines the Walking Tour because the emerged nearly concurrently with the Urban Workshop's collaboration on the project. It provides an overview of extant scholarship on the many ways that the 'Chicago School' has been treated. The chapter examines our own conceptual and theoretical understandings of lineage-making as it relates to concepts drawn from anthropology and the sociology of knowledge. It focuses on some of the substantive historical overlaps between concepts developed by anthropologists and sociologists during the early years of department formation, especially theorisation of race and the rural–urban continuum. The chapter highlights how insights from science, technology, and society research and the history of cartography provide new ways of reflecting on the growing interest in cartographic methods. In the early decades of its founding, the University of Chicago was noted for the extent and intensity of its interdisciplinary exchange.