When Architecture Meets Activism
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1241-1 (ISBN)
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This social history and community study documents the events surrounding the attempt by community members, activists, and VISTA architects to resist the planned construction of a community college in the neighborhood of Uptown. The planner and architect are seldom envisioned as advocates for the urban poor. However, during the 1960s, New Left planners and architects began working with marginalized groups in cities to design alternatives to urban renewal projects. This was part of a national advocacy planning movement that was taking shape in urban areas like Chicago. Inspired by critics of the Rational-comprehensive model of planning, advocacy planners opposed the imposition of projects on neighborhoods often with no collaboration from residents. One example of this resistance was Hank Williams Village—a multi-purpose housing and commercial redevelopment project modeled after a southern town. The Village was an attempt to prevent the displacement of thousands of southern whites by the planned construction of a community college in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. While the plan for the Village failed to win support of the local urban renewal board, the work performed by the young VISTA architects became instrumental in their subsequent career trajectories and thus served as formative personal and professional experience.
Roger Guy is professor of sociology and criminal justice at University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
Introduction: Uncharted Territory: Architects and Planners as Activists
1. Urban Renewal, Advocacy Planning, and Community Design Centers in the United States
2. The Historical, Commercial, and Physical Evolution of Uptown
3. Staging Contentious Conflict: Uptown’s Diversity, Appalachian Migrants, and the Anatomy of Resistance
4. Architects and Activists Converge on the Windy City: A Confluence of People and Events
5. The Uptown Community Design Center, and Plan for Hank Williams Village
6. A “Modern Day Christ with a Southern Drawl:” Chuck Geary and the Protracted Fight for Hank Williams Village
7. Divergent Trajectories and Lasting Effects: The Indelible Mark of VISTA and the Uptown Experience
8. Advocacy Planning and Activist Architecture: Then and Now
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.11.2016 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 7 BW Illustrations, 5 Maps |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 239 mm |
| Gewicht | 531 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-1241-0 / 1498512410 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-1241-1 / 9781498512411 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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