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When Architecture Meets Activism - The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City (Hardcover)
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When Architecture Meets Activism - The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City (Hardcover)
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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.
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