High Rise Stories

In the gripping first person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago s iconic public housing projects describe life in the now demolished high rises These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly at the heart of our national identity. Read High Rise Stories – kino-fada.fr There are some notorious public housing projects in my country check out Toronto s , but nothing on the scale of what Chicago, USA had once possessed Cabrini Green most notably, most of these projects had good intentions but soon decayed into excuses for crime, racism, fear and neglect Today the projects in Chicago s past have mostly been torn down or replaced with new ones Project life isn t easy, but this book showcases the resilience, hope and dreams of the numerous residents living withi There are some notorious public housing projects in my country check out Toronto s , but nothing on the scale of what Chicago, USA had once possessed Cabrini Green most notably, most of these projects had good intentions but soon decayed into excuses for crime, racism, fear and neglect Today the projects in Chicago s past have mostly been torn down or replaced with new ones Project life isn t easy, but this book showcases the resilience, hope and dreams of the numerous residents...Years ago, I attended graduate school in Chicago Even then I liked climbing to the top of the tallest edifices in the world so one fine morning I was standing on the top floor of the John Hancock building Back then, the John Hancock building was the second tallest building in Chicago the Sears Tower, now called the Willis Tower, being the first As I looked out the window of one side I saw, according the to map on the wall, Cabrini Green.I had heard of Cabrini Green The government housing h Years ago, I attended graduate scho...I don t know how this book, which was published five years ago, just hit my radar and I was convinced it was new But I figured out pretty quickly it wasn t, given the timeframe of these interviews.This is a really powerful look at the people who lived in the Chicago projects I grew up hearing about them on the news, the mythology surrounding them, and it was really worthwhile to hear the stories of those who lived there A wide array of experiences and attachments to those homes are showcased, I don t know ...Although I m not a huge fan of the oral histories format, this book provides a well rounded and diverse look at variety of people who grew up in the Chicago projects including the infamous Cabrini Green It is interesting to see how many people miss the sense of camaraderie they found in such close knit conditions with their neighbors, even while acknowledging the bad memories of gang violence, neglect on building maintenance, crooked police encounters, strict one strike policies, and a lack of Although I m not a huge fan of the oral histories format, this book provides a well rounded and diverse look at variety of people who grew up in the Chicago projects including the infamous Cabrini Green It is interesting to see how many people miss the sense of camaraderie they found in such close knit conditions with their neighbors, even while acknowledging the bad memories of gang violence, neglect on building maintenance, crooked police encounters, strict o...Should you happen to say the phrase public housing, barely will the syllables escape your mouth before countless targets of blame are identified The failure of public housing is the fault of architects for their soulless and impractical high rise designs, planners for their misguided modernist technocrat sensibilities, housing agencies for their incompetence and gross mismanagement, bureaucrats for their usual inefficient meddling, contractors for profiteering and shoddy construction, city g Should you happen to say the phrase public housing, barely will the syllables escape your mouth before countless targets of blame are identified The failure of public housing is the fault of architects for their soulless and impractical high rise designs, planners for their misguided modernist technocrat sensibilities, housing agencies for their incompetence and gross mismanagement, bureaucrats for their usual inefficient meddling, contractors for profiteering and shoddy construction, city governments for cronyism and corruption, the poor themselves for not taking care of what we gave them And the list goes on Personally, as someone who has spent a lot of time learning and thinking about public housing, I believe its colossal failure in the US should occasion a great dealshame than blame Shame that we have never been able to commit to the notion that hou...I came acrossHigh Rise Storiesin an article called Demolished on the National Public Radio website It featured photographs by Patricia Evans, one of which became the cover for this book It was a thing of luck and turned out to be an extremely rewarding reading experience I had known of Cabrini Green from popular culture mainly the 199...The recording of oral histories is, to me, a crucial necessity, be it for war survivors, marginalized communities, or whomever else pop culture and the puppet media ignores across generations and cultures Having grown up in the 70s and 80s at the far fringe of Chicagoland, I too fell prey to the awful stereotypes, media portrayals, and horror stories surrounding the projects, with Cabrini Green as the foreboding centerpiece Of course Gary, Indiana, wasn t a playground either While unravel The recording of oral hist...This is a somewhat odd recommendation, because I have only just begun reading the book, High Rise Stories Voices from Chicago Public Housing, by Audrey Petty My students and I spent six years working from the ground floor of Stateway Gardens, a family public housing high rise as the development was gradually demolished building by building as a part of the Chicago Housing Authority s Plan for Transformation Much like the personal stories in this book, our experiences at Stateway complicated o This is a somewhat odd recommendation, because I have only just begun reading the book, High Rise Stories Voices from Chicago Public Housing, by Audrey Petty My students and I spent six years working from the ground floor of Stateway Gardens, a family public housing high rise as the development was gradually demolished building by building as a part of the Chicago Housing Authority s Plan for Transformation Much like the personal stories in this book, our experiences at Stateway complicated our understanding of life in Chicago public housing communities While the communities were often most known from the outside by conditions of extreme poverty and violence images of gangbangers and drug dealers had a tendency to eclipse all other life , we came to know a real community individuals and fam...Fascinating insights into a world that we know a little about from movies TV and the news, but which is often wildly misrepresented All the expected stories of drugs, teenage pregnancy, random shooting, gang banging and police indifference and brutality are here, but so also are stories of community, shared lives, overcoming disadvantage and belonging The experiences and struggles of the individuals who tell their tales in this book reinforce the underlying common humanity that so often is den Fascinating insights into a world that we know a little about from movies TV and the news, but which is often wildly misrepresented All the expected stories of drugs, teenage pregnancy, random shooting, gang banging and police indifference and brutality are here, but so also are stories of community, shared lives, overcoming disadvantage and belonging The experiences and struggles of the individuals who tell their tales in this book reinforce the underlying common ...Learned so much about Chicago history and the lived reality of the projects Beautiful clear stories.

• English
• 19 June 2017
Audrey Petty
• Paperback
• 304 pages
• 1938073371
• Audrey Petty
• High Rise Stories