High Rise Stories
Description
In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago's iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high-rises. These stories of community, displacement, and poverty in the wake of gentrification give voice to those who have long been ignored, but whose hopes and struggles exist firmly at the heart of our national identity.
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Person
Audrey Petty is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A Ford Foundation grantee, her work has been featured in Colorlines, StoryQuarterly, and Saveur, among many others.
Alex Kotlowitz is the author of There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, which the New York Public Library selected as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. His nonfiction stories have appeared in print, radio and film. From his documentary, The Interrupters, to his stories in The New York Times Magazine and on public radio's This American Life, he's been honored in all three mediums.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword: Vital Neighborhoods by Alex Kotlowitz
- Introduction: On Plans and Transformations by Audrey Petty
- Executive Editor's Note by Mimi Lok
- Dolores Wilson
- Dawn Knight
- Donnell Furlow
- Yusufu Mosley
- Eddie Leman
- Sabrina Nixon
- Paula Hawkins
- Sonovia Marie Petty
- Ashley Cortland
- Chandra Bell
- Tiffany Tucker
- Lloyd "Peter" Haywood
- Appendices
- I. Timeline of Housing and Civil Rights in Chicago
- II. Glossary
- III. The Last Tower by Ben Austen
- IV. High Rise Architecture by D. Bradford Hunt
- V. Where Are They Now? by the Chicago Housing Authority
- VI. Plan for Transformation after Ten Years by Lawrence J. Vale and Erin Graves
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editor
- Back Cover
