When Architecture Meets Activism
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When Architecture Meets Activism

The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City

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When Architecture Meets Activism

The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Uncharted Territory
  4. Urban Renewal, Advocacy Planning, and Community Design Centers in the United States
  5. The Historical, Commercial, and Physical Evolution of Uptown
  6. Staging Contentious Conflict
  7. Architects and Activists Converge on the Windy City
  8. The Uptown Community Design Center and Plan for Hank Williams Village
  9. A “Modern Day Christ with a Southern Drawl”
  10. Divergent Trajectories and Lasting Effects
  11. Advocacy Planning and Activist Architecture
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index
  14. About the Author