Issue 10

AREA Chicago #10 was released October 1st, 2010

Table of Contents

• Masthead/Contributors Bios
• Editorial: Inheriting the Grid #10 by Daniel Tucker and Beth Gutelius
• Introduction: Building for Change by Rebecca Zorach and Robin Hewlett
• Adlistings

Nuts & Bolts

• Mad Housers: Gimme Shelter by Tom Faegre with Jayne Hileman
• A Second Skin: Selections from a Conversation by Diasporal Rhythms with Rebecca Zorach
• The School of Community Organization and the Center for Radical Research by Rebecca Zorach
• The Infrastructure of Survival: Who Owns Chicago’s Water System? by Abigail Singer
• FreeGeek Chicago Rethinks itself by David Eads
• The Public Square at 10 Years by Alice Kim

Relationships

• Cultural Infrastructures: Chicago Artist Resource creates access to culture and information by Barbara Koenen
• Mess Hall at Seven Years by Matthias Regan
• “We don’t want your Big Mac! We just want our schools back!” Organizing with CORE by Wade Tillett
• The Struggles over Chicago’s Brotherhood Park by Robert B. Ross
• Collective Living and Work Spaces: Essential Institutions and Infrastructure by Alexa Iwasa
• Trustworthiness: Infrastructuring a Better Chicago by Victor Thasiah
• Museum as Teens’ Studio by Erin Dragotto and Carol Ng-he
• Organizing as Infrastructure by Padraig Kingston
• illinoiscommuntyjustice.org Transforming the Prison System as We Know it by Illinois Community Justice

 

• In memorium: Damian Turner
• Bad Jobs in Goods Movements by Beth Gutelius, Cindy Marble, Warehouse Works for Justice , Daniel Tucker and design by Dave Pabellon
• Illustrations by Sarah Smizz and Larry Shure

 

Engaging Existing Systems

• Chicago Participatory Budgeting Experiment by Nicole Summers
• Chicago Books to Women in Prison by Chicago Books to Women in Prison
• Pushing Boundaries, Building Relationships: The Hull House Museum Joins the Sex-Positive Community by Lisa Junkin
• Placing Together a New Institution: The Woodlawn Collaborative by Luis Brennan
• Industrial Harvest by Sarah Kavage with Daniel Tucker
• The Mobile Garden by Joe Baldwin
• Garden is not Warfare: Institutions, Infrastructure, and the Community Garden by Ben Helphand
• Green Roof’s: A Sustainable Infrastructure’s Solution by D.J. Forbes and Maureen Hearty
• Creating Local Infrastructure for Building Material Reuse by Elise Zelechowski
• History of Parking Lots: Wrigley Field by Temporary Travel Office
• Social Justice Education in Action: Students respond to CPS budget crisis by Javier Lara, Leonardo Rivera with Robin Hewlett

Filling the Gaps

• Documents, Identities, and Institutions by N. Sol Ireri Unzueta Carrasco
• Introducing: Chicago Childcare Collective by Chanell Marshall
• Cultural Journalism in the New Millennium by Lee Ann Norman
• Busy Building Buslines: LVEJO’s efforts to improve public transit by Mackel Garrison
• Go Go Co-op: The story of making a cooperative grocery store from scratch by Kathleen Duffy
• Food Desert Action: Mobile Produce Caravan by Katherine Darnstadt
• Humbolt Park’s Puerto Rican Cultural Center: Over Three Decades of Community Building by Marisol Rodriguez

Life Cycles

• Life After Demise by Faheem Majeed
• A brief history of the Charles H. Ken Publishing Company by Kate Khatib and John Duda
• Pilsen’s Muse: A cantina where art and politics, music and culture flow freely by Kari Lydersen
• Sustaining for 40 Years: The People’s Law Office by People’s Law Office with Daniel Tucker
• Ten Years of Ausgang by Melinda Fries with  Mairead Case
• Nothing Great Gets Done Alone: No Coast and Roxaboxen by Young Joon Kwak, Liz Mccarthy, and Aay Preston-Myint
• Backing the GIs Who Break Rank: Building the Civilian-Solider Alliance by Sarah Lazare and Brad Thomson
• Responses to Question on Faith & Social Justice by Fatima Bahloul, Jenny Dale, Estelle Carol, Bob Simpson, and Leora Abelson