Creating Community Places: CityLab in Chinatown
Fall 1997
The Chinese American Service League (CASL) submitted a proposal to the
City Design Center to develop a master plan for Chinatown, Chicago’s
traditional Chinese-American community on the southside, including: alternative
designs for a new urban park and community center to provide a focus for
area and sorely needed open recreational space; and coordinate land uses,
economic and residential development, and transportation.
The Center coordinated the CityLab studio, in which architecture and
planning students and faculty worked collaboratively with CASL and with
Chinatown residents to create development plans for the neighborhood.
The studio produced a master plan including a land use and community needs
inventory; a general development plan for the Chinatown and the vicinity;
park designs along the Chicago River incorporating Chicago Park District
guidelines and students’ analyses of cultural, political, and inter-community
issues; and designs for the community Center which, at CASL’s request,
included representations of Chinese cultural references.
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Map of Chicago with project location
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Web Site
City Design Center Affiliated Faculty
Tom Forman, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Architecture, and
Associate Director, City Design Center
Tingwei Zhang, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning and Policy Program
Collaborating Organizations
Chinese American Development Corporation
Chinese American Service League (CASL)
Funding
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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