When Architecture Meets Activism - The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

By Roger Guy

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Guy, Guy Roger
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781498512435
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1243-5
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Einzelne Architekten und Architekturbüros, Städte, Stadtgemeinden, Politischer Aktivismus, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, Illinois, Individual architects & architectural firms, ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Political activism, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban communities, Individual architects and architectural firms, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Political activism / Political engagement