Euan Hague and Winifred Curran
This project was a partnership with the Pilsen Alliance to collect, analyze, and disseminate data on housing, jobs, and health as part of a community planning process surrounding the future of the Fisk power plant site, which was scheduled to be closed in September 2012. We used data collected by students in GEO 133 Urban Geography Experiential Learning, a community-based service learning class, to tell the story of urban change in Pilsen from 2004, when our collaboration began, to the present. Ideas about future development and urban planning, developed by students in GEO 103: Urbanization, GEO 333: Urban Planning and GEO 339: Topics in Architecture and Urbanism will be used to stimulate discussions at community meetings in Pilsen. This project was an attempt to create a sustainable and socially just vision for Pilsen, one that allows for the preservation of this historically working-class immigrant community.