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March 6, 2007
A Faculty Scholar Seminar |
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Neighborhoods and Heritage: The Lawndale Experience
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Robert Bruegmann
Professor and Chair, Department of
Art History
UIC College of Architecture and the Arts
Roberta Feldman
Co-Director, City Design Center
UIC College of Architecture and the Arts
Charles Leeks
Director, Lawndale Office of Neighborhood
Housing Services of Chicago
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Great Cities Institute, Suite 400 CUPPA Hall
412 South Peoria, Chicago, IL 60607
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some years a group of residents of North Lawndale, together
with individuals and institutions from around the Chicago
area have been working with the idea of using heritage
for community organizing and economic development. The
idea is that heritage, meaning both the history or “story”
of a place and its surviving historical fabric, can help
unify a community around a set of discreet and relatively
uncontroversial projects and it can be a very cost-effective
way of fostering economic development by “re-branding”
the community, changing its image both within the community
and in the larger outside world and thus encouraging reinvestment
and rehabilitation. |
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