Redeveloping Chicago public housing
Over the past decade, the Chicago Housing Authority has demolished many of the city’s high-rise public housing projects and replaced them with mixed-income communities of townhomes and mid-rise apartments. In this essay for Places, urban historian Lawrence Vale looks back on the history of the now-demolished Cabrini-Green housing project, and the exclusionary municipal policies that prevent some of the area’s neediest citizens from taking up residence in new redevelopments. “It is not enough to ask: who benefits from public housing redevelopment?” Vale writes. “We must also ask: how we measure...
Published By: Architect Magazine - Tuesday, 21 February
