Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream by Barry Bergdoll

Author:Barry Bergdoll [Bergdoll, Barry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

107 cicero, Illinois

Questions for the Teams

practice to date? How did you interact

Jeanne gang

with the nondesigner members of your

team? What additional expertise do you

What aspects of The Buell Hypothesis

now wish you might have had as integral

helped you to frame your project? In

to your work, if any?

what ways do you depart from The Buell

Hypothesis, and why?

our practice is a highly collaborative

one that engages multidisciplinary

our project addresses the dual crisis of

teams on a regular basis. This project,

foreclosure and environmental devasta-

however, cut across a greater variety of

tion framed in The Buell Hypothesis. The

issues than we typically address, and

environmental imperative for inner-ring

led me to reach out to a unique set of

suburbs like cicero, however, centers

participants. roberta Feldman and rafi

not on addressing sprawl but on the

segal contributed their deep experi-

postindustrial landscape. A long history

ence in public housing and urban design

of lax environmental regulations has

respectively. Kate orff contributed

created the need to remediate these

her perspective on former industrial

heavily worked, contaminated lands,

sites and regional landscape systems.

and this kind of renewal is an urgent and

Through working as an artist in cicero’s

costly prerequisite for reimagining the

neighborhoods, Theaster gates gained

inner ring.

a close understanding of what was

We also take up the Hypothesis’s

important to the town’s residents, while

issues of ownership patterns and the

greg lindsay, an insightful journalist

balance between public and private

and urban observer, was able to bring

interests. In our project we propose the

cohesion to many of the larger global

creation of a limited equity cooperative

and financial issues that our project

that would decouple the live-and-work

addresses.

units from the land on which they sit.

Through this system, residents are able

What aspects of your project are

to purchase and sell shares correspond-

specific to your site or suburban munici-

ing to the units they occupy, without

pality? What aspects could be extended

coming to own the land and the shared

to other sites across the country?

amenities of the community. This form

of ownership strives to guarantee

cicero’s predominant housing stock

affordable housing to cicero’s current

is composed of brick bungalows, built

residents and future arrivals.

in the 1920s, that are organized into

We depart from the Hypothesis in its

residential blocks. Its fabric is relatively

definition of the American dream as a

compact compared to postwar suburbs.

ubiquitous notion that includes owner-

Also specific to cicero is its ethnic de-

ship of home and land. our research

mographic: 88 percent of the residents

told us that first- and second-generation

are Hispanic, many of them either im-

immigrants have a different dream: that

migrants or children of immigrants

of opportunity for themselves and their

originating from one of three states in

children. In order to create this kind

Mexico. cicero’s diverse household

of opportunity, our project focused as

structures include extended families,

much on redesigning public policy and

related families, growing families, and

financial systems as on designing new

even unrelated workers.

infrastructure for a transformed type

Although these figures are specific

of home ownership. Buell focuses on

to cicero, its “arrival city” characteristics

redreaming the American city by way of

are shared by many other places in

the American house/home. The garden

the United states and around the world

in the Machine reimagines American

The need that our design addresses—

arrival and jobs in order to create a new

to accommodate the changing

vision of the home and the city.

circumstances of residents many of

whom are immigrants—is a national

How would you describe the interaction

and global one.

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