When Architecture Meets Activism (eBook)

The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City

Roger Guy (Autor)

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2016
284 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1242-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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. This book includes some of the only surviving material that documents the Hank Williams Village project.

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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.

Autor

Roger Guy is professor of sociology and criminal justice at University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Inhalt

Introduction: Uncharted Territory: Architects and Planners as Activists1. Urban Renewal, Advocacy Planning, and Community Design Centers in the United States2. The Historical, Commercial, and Physical Evolution of Uptown 3. Staging Contentious Conflict: Uptown’s Diversity, Appalachian Migrants, and the Anatomy of Resistance4. 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 Village6. A “Modern Day Christ with a Southern Drawl:” Chuck Geary and the Protracted Fight for Hank Williams Village7. Divergent Trajectories and Lasting Effects: The Indelible Mark of VISTA and the Uptown Experience8. Advocacy Planning and Activist Architecture: Then and Now

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.11.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Activist architecture • Advocacy planning • Appalachian migrants • Chicago • Chuck Geary • Community design centers • Community Organizing • Hank Williams Village • New Left • Uptown • Urban renewal • VISTA Architects
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1242-9 / 1498512429
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1242-8 / 9781498512428