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Lenz, Thomas J.
Changing the Way We Do Things Symposium, Summary Report
Thomas J. Lenz and Kimberly Gester
January 1998
GCP-98-2
This paper reports on the symposium titled, "Changing the Way We
Do Things," conducted on the future of community development in
the Chicago region. This report details what was planned, what happened,
and what the participants thought about it.
Future Directions of the Chicago
Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation
Thomas J. Lenz
June 1996
GCP-96-9
This report addresses the goals of an affiliate corporation of the Chicago
Housing Authority (CHA) and the Chicago Metropolitan Housing Development
Corporation (CMHDC). It outlines a mission and a set of operating strategies
for the CMHDC, to support the development of programmatic initiatives.
Liao, Jane
Gender Issues in the Construction
of Scientific Knowledge:
Inquiry into a 6th Grade Urban Classroom
Maria Varelas, Barbara Luster, Stacy Wenzel, and
Jane Liao
July 1997
GCP-97-5
This paper addresses preliminary data and analyses linking gender issues
with the teaching and learning of science. This study explores how elementary
students participate in lessons, develop meaning around topics, and
how teachers and students interact with each other.
Lieber, Michael
Goal Achievement, Relationship Building and Incrementalism:
The Challenges
of Univeristy-Community Partnership
Wim Wiewel and Michael Lieber
January 1998
GCP-97-12
A four-step planning process describes the fluid planning model involved
in university-community partnerships. This planning model differs from
the rational planning model because the process is founded on the collaboration
of partners working together to achieve some goal. In this way, relationships
are built and goals are achieved. University of Illinois at Chicago
Neighborhoods Initiative is used to illustrate the relationship-oriented
planning process.
Liggett, Helen
Urban Aesthetics and
the Excess of Fact
Helen Liggett
Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
Cleveland
State University
October 2006
GCP-06-05
The “excess of fact” describes the complexity and crowded
nature of un-staged photography, where many factors aside from the single
subject interact to create meaning. This essay examines the ways in
which three modes of “excess of fact” in urban life—echoes,
encounters and exchange—create an urban aesthetics. Taking back
the right to the city and dialogic occasions are explored in this discussion
of the construction of meaningful urban existence.
Lindstrom, Bonnie
Regional Cooperation and
Sustainable Growth: A Study of Nine Councils of Government
in the Northeastern
Illinois Region
Bonnie Lindstrom
November 1997
GCP-97-9
This research examines the historical development, functional responsibilities,
and sub-regional economic development agendas of nine councils of government
in the six county northeastern Illinois region. Formed in response to
the need of mayors and managers to consult on issues specific to their
sub-regions and in response to the mandate of ISTEA for local consultation
on transportation issues, the councils represent a new form of functional
regionalism.
Lipman, Pauline
Making Sense of Renaissance 2010 School Policy in Chicago:
Race, Class, and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberal Urban Restructuring
Pauline Lipman
January 2009
GCP-09-02
Chicago has long been a focus of national attention on urban education policy, and its latest plan to remake public education is no exception. In 2004, Chicago's mayor announced Renaissance 2010 (Ren2010), a plan to close 60-70 schools and reopen 100 new schools, at least two-thirds as charter or contract schools. Charter schools are public schools chartered by the state to be rum by private group. They have greater autonomy in operation and curriculum than CPS schools. Renaissance 2010 is perhaps the most significant experiment in the US to reinvent an urban public school system on neoliberal lines. Part of the Ren2010 agenda is to create new mixed-income schools in mixed-income communities created in the wake of the demolition of public housing.
My focus in this paper is the cultural politics of this policy, how it "makes sense" on the ground and how neoliberalism is materialized through the actions of social movements and social actors. Here, I am interested in a) the discourse of racial pathology underpinning mixed-income schools/housing and b) rearticulation of discourses of equity and self-determination to the market and individual choice through charter schools. I am especially interested in how the "good sense" in these policies connects with people's lived experiences to further a hegemonic neoliberal agenda and the implications for constructing a counter-hegemonic movement.
Lugardone, Joann
Latino adolescents in the U.S. endure health and social inequities such that they are less likely to complete high school and less likely to have access to health care than their non-Latino white counterparts. These disparities can compromise chances for health and social advancement over the life course.
The purpose of this paper is to present a participatory evaluation using an empowerment framework to demonstrate how a local, urban cultural center for youth fosters (1) Latino Unity and positive youth development among participants; (2) youth led action and organizational empowerment, (3) positive community connectedness and community-building and (4) broader societal connectedness and social justice
Luster, Barbara
Gender Issues in the Construction
of Scientific Knowledge:
Inquiry into a 6th Grade Urban Classroom
Maria Varelas, Barbara Luster, Stacy Wenzel, and
Jane Liao
July 1997
GCP-97-5
This paper addresses preliminary data and analyses linking gender issues
with the teaching and learning of science. This study explores how elementary
students participate in lessons, develop meaning around topics, and
how teachers and students interact with each other.
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