Urban Vacancy Research Initiative

hot off the presses at "The Future of Public Housing" 👌🏾👏🏾

local coverage of Ronit Bezalel's "70 Acres in Chicago" - showing at the Gene Siskel Film Center from November 13-19, 2015.

Cabrini Green documentary shows housing project in a different light When you think about Cabrini Green, for many, the images that come to mind are a violent and run down part of Chicago, plagued by shootings, gangs and drug dealers.

The next chapter in the story of Cabrini-Green A recent settlement agreement with the Chicago Housing Authority would end a 2013 lawsuit filed by the Cabrini-Green Local Advisory Council, but not all of the redevelopment issues are settled.

just discovered this from 2012 - download the manifesto from the exhibition website: "...planning must be made popular: something that people understand, like, and do."

Making Planning Popular | www.dk-cm.com Planning is the process through which society produces change in our built environment. It is a social product,and as such should be shared by the whole of society.