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URW 2006-2007: Chicago's South Side
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In the 2006-07, the workshop joined forced with the Columbia Undergraduate
Urban Studies Group (CUrbs) and turned their focus to a great American urban
metropolis, Chicago. They worked with archival issues of the weekly journal
based on Chicago's Southside. The journal documented political and cultural
events in the historic Bronzeville community in the 1990's. In January, the
students traveled to Chicago to meet with the founders of the journal as
well as other key figures in the local area. They are currently in the
process of creating a website to document the role of the journal in this
community.
Events Series
Fall 2006:
Screening of documentary film Favela Rising
Spring 2007:
Conference on Gentrification
Final Conference: Screening of Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh's documentary film
Dislocation and presentation of the forthcoming South Side Chicago Website.
Guest speakers include public housing resident Dorothy Battie and South
Street Journal founder Ron Carter.
Trip to Chicago Pictures
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