Special Discussions on Equitable Sustainable Community Development
These discussions seek to bring the input of faculty,
students and community partners in order to look at common strategies
between cities as well as unique ideas from one particular city that
can be applied elsewhere.
Those taking part in these discussions will be
presented with a set of questions based on the featured articled and
its related links, and be asked to discuss them through a weblog hosted
by Blogger.com [Please note: The Center for Urban Research and Learning
is not responsible for the content of any other weblogs found at this
host site. CURL will be monitoring and, if necessary, editing posts
to its own weblog page].
November
9, 2005 - Discussion Papers #3
"Capital or Culture" |
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The selection of Liverpool as the European
Capital of Culture 2008 has stimulated considerable discussion around
a variety of issues. While the European
Capital of Culture program is intended to recognize existing cultural
excellence, it is also intended to bring new investment and cultural
innovation to the selected city. Using the current experience of Liverpool
as a case study our current blog discussion will focus on equitable
sustainable development in the broad area of "cultural development."
Initially we will use three papers produced by faculty and students
at the University of Liverpool as the centerpieces for our discussion.
In addition to this, we expect to have copies
of the film, "Capital or Culture," available for viewing
and discussion by faculty, students, and community leaders in our
five cities. In addition to participants from our four “project”
cities—Liverpool, Sevilla, Washington DC, and Chicago, we have
invited colleagues from Sydney, Australia to join us. UTS
Shopfront at the University of Technology Sydney is a science
shop which parallels the community-university collaborative work going
on in our four cities. We have invited faculty and students from UTS
to use their experience in democratic, community-based planning approaches
to contribute to the conversation (see
attached papers). An additional
paper on arts and community development questions in Chicago,
written by Diane Grams, a past CURL Community Fellow, is also provided
in the links section.
May
16, 2005 - Discussion Paper #2
'Hood Winked. Making public housing livable
is as simple as getting rid of the people who live there.
By Laura Lang and David Morton
March 22,
2005 - Discussion Paper #1
Fighting Gentrification Chicago Style
By Nancy Aardema and Sarah Jane Knoy
Discussions will also focus more generally on inclusionary zoning issues.
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