David Wilson is Professor of Geography, Urban Planning and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on the restructuring of cities in the global north and global south and the urban transformation of the U.S. Rustbelt. He has published widely in many journals tht span geography and the social sciences. His most recent book is Chicago's Redevelopment Machine and Blues Clubs (Palgrave-MacMillan).

Elvin Wyly is Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, unceded x¿m¿¿k¿¿y¿¿m (Musqueam) territory, Canada. Wyly studies the spatial dynamics of market processes and public policy with a special emphasis on racial discrimination in mortgage lending, the intensification of gentrification, and the algorithmic reanimation of nineteenth-century Social Darwinist perversions of evolutionary science. Recent essays and articles have appeared in many social science journals and books.