Not so long ago, to study the city was to begin with what Michael Dear has called a "simplified urban epistemology" of a modernist, Chicago-inspired understanding of society and space. Since the 1970s, urban theory has been transformed in many ways, and of course, empirical transformations continue in the crucible of twentieth-century urban social science itself. This is a small sample of images from the South Side moments of some of those changes, taken between 2003 and 2010. I can't provide a full narrative with detailed captions for every image -- if you get me started, I might never stop; but there are a few recurrent themes. The poststructuralist, post-positivist challenge to hegemonic, Chicago-inspired Park-Burgess theory was valuable indeed -- but only for the very brief period when the axes of method, politics, and epistemology were in alignment. That period was over by the time the post-everything consensus began to create its own hegemony. Perhaps the Robert Taylor homes can be remembered, for example, as a reflection of a failed compromise of a certain strain of Chicago-School theory mixed with a racialized Daley machine politics and Washington dysfunctionality. But post-industrial, post-Keynesian neoliberal poststructuralism certainly has delivered neither social nor spatial justice. We now have a de-industrialized city with downgraded wages and power for organized labor and for individual workers. We now have the erasure of the Robert Taylor Homes and Stateway Gardens, in favor of a blank-slate landscape gradually filling in with selective opportunities for a carefully-screened selected few for assisted homeownership, alongside more upscale private gentrification. The mid-century landscapes of the "culture of poverty" are no longer visible, but poverty is worse than ever: it's just a disciplined decentralization and dispersal that privatizes, and hides, the daily struggles of survival in a competitive space economy designed according to the raw principles of commodified consumer sovereignty.