Cabrini Green is indeed the most notorious project complex in Chicago history because of its bad reputation and its location in the city. These projects …
Chicago has demolished its high-rise public housing projects and replaced them with mixed-income, new urbanist style communities. But where have the displaced tenants gone?
This article was written by Rory Fanning. Stepping out of the elevator onto the 14th floor of the Richard J. Daley Center, Sheriee Woodland was greeted by a world-famous panorama of high-rise architecture. The Chicago Temple Building, Holabird & Root's...
[photos by Nicholas James for Curbed Chicago] The Chicago Housing Authority has just released its draft plan for the redevelopment of the 65 acre site where Cabrini-Green once stood. Details for...
THE 1963 THE CHA INSTALLED STEEL FENCES ON THE FACADE OF THE BUILDINGS DUE TO PEOPLE BEING PUSHED TO THEIR DEATHS DURING CABRINI'S FIRST MONTHS OF INHABITANCE
Chicago has demolished its high-rise public housing projects and replaced them with mixed-income, new urbanist style communities. But where have the displaced tenants gone?
Chicago is now officially seeking proposals for the first phase of the massive redevelopment of the former Cabrini-Green housing project on the city's Near North Side. While the plan eventually...
The 65-acre plan will include a series of high- and low-density mixed-income developments.
Image 8 of 10 from gallery of Cabrini-Green and Vele di Scampia: When Public Housing Projects Don’t Work Out. Cabrini-Green. Image © Ovie Carter
Photos: Inside The Demolition Of The Notorious Cabrini-Green Projects
photo: l.baldeshwiler Last Monday I decided to check out the Cabrini Green art project. Living about 29 miles away (from Cabrini green) and being later in the evening to travel alone, I jumped in my car and headed up to Chicago. When I began I decided to try to document my journey up to the project. I was amazed at what I found in the video afterwards. Last lights on Cabrini Green - VIDEO The video starts in a suburb. It can be any suburb really. Take main street along the cookie-cutter houses to a commercialized drag of IL83. We pass a Burger King, Walgreen's, Dairy Queen, McDonald's... Past a car dealer with several of the same exact cars and get on the expressway. Go north, up the great divide and off at Division. Pass over two bridges and Cabrini is on the left. I can see the lights from before the second bridge. I pull around the block and sit in the parking lot and watch the west side's lights flicker. It’s somewhat hypnotic with how this silent building can be screaming with the lights. I felt really irresponsible. As being a person from the middle working class that hasn't really had (financial) struggle in my life, or has ever suffered neglect from the government (housing wise)- I felt rather off driving 60 miles in total, (which cost me 12 dollars in gas,) to look at the last building of an era of neglect and abuse. The artist was successful in creating a dialogue of what we prioritize. I am more aware of how good I really have it. I have enough cushion to live in a suburb and drive anywhere I need to. Spend thousands of dollars on post-high school education and equipment. Only to gawk at the dilapidated building of people who didn't have anywhere near as nice as I did. (Just this week my laptop died- within the next day, a new one was on the way….) And what for? We have become aware of the slumming/unslumming process. Examining who is charge of city planning and unslumming is not the person who has experienced the slums. It’s another person of a similar well enough to do background. The removal of Cabrini Green may have brought some property values up in that area and also may have lowered some of the crime rates- but I’m sure I’m going to be watching the same cycle- just another day and another neighborhood. (this video may be choppy. I felt Greenday’s Welcome to Paradise was somewhat fitting of the music I know. If not, mute...)
1996'da İstanbul'da yapılan Habitat deklarasyonunun kapanış bildirisini 14 yıl sonra yeniden hatırlamak öğretici görünüyor. Türkçesi -English Sorunu İstanbul'un dönüşümü bağlamında ele alan "Habitat II Tartışmaları ve İstanbul’da Toplumsal Dönüşüm" başlıklı yazıma ve tanıtımına şuradan bakılabilir. Acilen sosyal bilim araştırmalarına konu edilmesi ve olumlu-olumsuz boyutlarıyla ele alınması gereken TOKİ'nin 2010 yılını rekorlarla kapatmış olduğunu okudum gazetede. Bütün ülkede konut ve şehir perspektifini yeniden inşa eden kurumla ilgili sosyolojik araştırmaları yerel ve ulusal düzeylerde kurmak gerekiyor. Özellikle emlak piyasalarında rekabet dinamiklerini etkilemesi ve çok katlı konut üretimini tabana yayarak klasik şehir dokusunu dönüştürmesi ile Anadolu'da kentsel mekanın anlamının kökten dönüşümüne neden olması da bir diğer başlık. Habitat II bildirgesiyle birlikte katmanlı bir analize daha ihtiyaç var. Bir de şu notu düşmekte fayda var. Kentsel dönüşüm projelerinin emsallerinden olan binlerce siyah ailenin yerleştirildiği Chicago'daki Cabrini Green konutlarında kalan birkaç aile de çıkarılarak tamamen boşaltıldı. Cabrini Green Konutları-Chicago Cabrini Green'in Yıkımı Richard Sennett'in doğup büyüdüğü ve Gözün Vicdanı kitabında iyi bir eleştirisini yaptığı bu yerleşim toplu-konut projesinin, gelir dağılımın ve yeniden bölüşüm politikalarının bozuk olduğu ve işsizlik ve ekonomik alana katılım sorunlarının çözülemediği ülkelerde nerelere gidebileceğinin ve gelecek kuşaklara miras bıraktığı engellenmişlik deneyimlerinin de iyi bir örneği. Yıllardır gidişatını takip ettiğim bu projenin kapandığı gün, Chicago'da bunu televizyondan öğreneceğim aklımın ucundan geçmemişti. Bahsettiğim Toki haberinin altında ise şu manidar resim vardı. Toki Konutları Yeni Kent Peyzajı "Yaşam Alanı Metafiziği" Hatırlanabilecek bir diğer önemli olay St. Louis - Missouri'deki Pruitt-Igoe konutlarının 1972'de yakılmasıydı (Arkitera'da bir tanıtım-eleştiri yazısına bakılabilir). Postmodernizmin doğuşunun kesin işareti olarak yaygın şekilde yorumlanan (Sennett, Harvey vd.) bu modernist toplu konut projesi hala canlı bir tartışmanın konusu. Charles Jenks'in bu iddialı konut girişiminin yapımından yıkımına uzanan karmaşık tarih TOKİ'nin veya büyük GYO şirketlerinin toplu konut projeleri bağlamında da tartışılmayı bekliyor. Bu çerçevede Jane Jacobs'ın sokağı savunan kentli yurttaş siyaseti idealinden Moses'in dev ölçekteki yenileşme girişimlerine uzanan hattı kritik ettiği köşe taşı tartışmalarını da hatırlamak mümkün. Pruitt Igoe Konutları Pruitt Igoe Konutlarının Yıkımı 16 Mart 1972
The Chicago Tribune had a story the other day about the last remaining row houses in what was the notorious public housing project Cabrini-Green. They posted a timeline about the high-rises includi…
West stairwell, 7th floor
Photos: Inside The Demolition Of The Notorious Cabrini-Green Projects
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A photo essay on the dramatic transformations of public housing in Chicago.
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This high rise is one of three left in the Cabrini Green Projects. This one sits on N. Halsted St.
Cabrini Green, an infamous low-income housing project in Chicago, has vanished. Where did the projects go and what happened to the people who lived there?
Disc 1: 1 - Walk Among the Cobras, 2 - Cabrini Green, 3 - Wipeout Beat, 4 - Black Party, 5 - Sinking in the Shallow End, 6 - First Bloods, 7 - Do You Hear My Voice, 8 - Feigning Ignorance
Nia DaCosta's sequel to "Candyman" hopes to provide a different perspective on a long-maligned and now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood
A photo essay on the dramatic transformations of public housing in Chicago.
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Photos: Inside The Demolition Of The Notorious Cabrini-Green Projects
The Near North Side parcel bordered by Division, Halsted, Scott, and Larrabee will likely remain vacant for some time
