“From Bungalows to Blasted Landscapes: Preservation’s Politics of Place”
ABSTRACT: This presentation discussed the the traces and layers of history at particular sites and neighborhoods as one means of developing attachments to, and understandings of, place. In particular, the presentation looked at the how history is dealt with, or not dealt with, at EPA superfund projects (blasted landscapes) and a project that worked with neighborhoods in Chicago to develop a landmark nomination for 80,000 Chicago bungalows--buildings previously left outside the canonical narratives of Chicago architecture (bungalows). Both types of projects have, in somewhat different ways, provided frames for developing a politics of place, as much about the future as the past.
Session IV: Going Public with the Built Environment
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