Woodlawn Housing & Development
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Title
Woodlawn Housing & Development
Subject
Housing project, survey, and data about Woodlawn; recent investment and future development in Woodlawn
Description
This collection of items features a wide variety of sources, from newspaper articles to University of Chicago Undergraduate BA theses, and survey questions for residents to historical data compiled by Chicago-based institutions. It is by no means a comprehensive evaluation of housing and development in Woodlawn, but rather, probes the question of who has the authority and voice to claim the use of land and to encourage positive development for the neighborhood of Woodlawn and surrounding communities.
Collection Items
White Minds, Red Lines: The University of Chicago and Racial Capitalism from 1925 to 1940 (2019)
This thesis examines the University of Chicago’s relationship to its neighbors from 1925 to 1940. During this period, the “Chicago School” sociologists Ernest Burgess, Robert Park, and Louis Wirth published research on the city which legitimized…
Space for Whom? Negotiating Displacement and Development: the Obama Presidential Center and the South Side CBA Coalition (2018)
This study focuses on the spatial claims that the Obama Foundation and South Side Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) Coalition make regarding the Obama Presidential Center, in the context of Jackson Park, the Woodlawn neighborhood, and the wider…
Get Off My Woodlawn: Community Organizing in Woodlawn in Response to the Obama Presidential Center (2020)
Community organizing has often been used in the City of Chicago to advocate for local interests. Woodlawn, a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, has a particularly rich history of organizing in order to achieve policy change and elevate the…
Jackson Park in the Past and Present: Major Points of Change and their Impact on Local Communities (2018)
Jackson Park has been an integral public space in Chicago’s South Side for over a century. As the site of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, the park began its existence as the place where Chicago introduced itself to the world. Since then, several major…
Lost in the Shuffle: the future of traditional public housing under the CHA's Plan for Transformation (2014)
The Chicago Housing Authority launched the Plan for Transformation, aiming to demolish public housing and to force former residents into mixed-income housing. Initiated in 1999, the Plan for Transformation has long lasting ripple effects in South…
What is the CHA Doing? Nearly two decades on, the legacy of the agency's Plan for Transformation haunts Chicago (2019)
Nearly half a century since the onset of the Plan for Transformation, various neighborhoods in Chicago see the changes brought by the Chicago Housing Authority. As federal funding dies down, it is critical to discuss urban landscape and community…
The Woodlawn Housing Data Project (2017)
The Woodlawn Parcel Survey (WPS) was a 2017 community-based initiative to collect use, occupancy, and conditions data for all 4,875 parcels of land within Woodlawn’s boundaries. Results from the survey form the foundation upon which this website is…
Map of Woodlawn Community (1920s)
This map shows residential area, vacant area, commercial frontage, railroad property, and transit lines in Woodlawn.
Analyzing Neighborhoods with Intensifying and Emerging Housing Affordability Pressure (2018)
The Institute for Housing Studies at DePaul University finds that displacement pressure increased in 2017 for neighborhoods like Woodlawn, where development and potential investments were underway. It is worth noting that West Woodlawn has been…
Woodlawn Property
Woodlawn, on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, is one of Chicago's 77 community areas. It is bounded by Lake Michigan to the east, 60th Street to the north, Martin Luther King Drive to the west, and 67th Street to the south. Much of its eastern…