Roger Guy

When Architecture Meets Activism

The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781498512435
• ISBN-10: 1498512437
• Artikelnr.: 52418487

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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