Invisible Cities: The Arts and Renewable Community

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 13.04.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction and Rationale
  2. Sources and Method
  3. Content Objectives
  4. Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Notes
  7. Bibliography
  8. Materials
  9. Implementing District Standards

Vacant Lot: The Chicago Ickes Community Remembered

Sarah Alice Weidmann

Published September 2013

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Bibliography

Algren, Nelson. Chicago; City on the Make. 60th Anniversary Edition ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951.

Bogart, Anne, and Tina Landau. The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2005.

Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

Conquergood, Lorne Dwight. Cultural Struggles. Performance, Ethnography, Praxis. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013.

Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1959.

Harmon, Katharine A., and Gayle Clemans. The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009.

Pearson, Mike, and Michael Shanks. Theatre/archaeology. London: Routledge, 2001.

Popkin, Susan J. The Hidden War: Crime and the Tragedy of Public Housing in Chicago. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2000.

"RFK in EKY: The Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project." RFK in EKY: The Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project. Accessed July 31, 2013. http://rfkineky.org/.

Squires, Gregory D. Chicago: Race, Class, and the Response to Urban Decline. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.

Suttles, Gerald D. The Man-made City: The Land-use Confidence Game in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Tapahonso, Luci. Blue Horses Rush In: Poems and Stories. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997.

Student Reading List, Classroom Materials List, and District Standards

Bone, Robert, and Richard A. Courage. "6 Bronzeville and the Documentary Spirit." In The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2011.

Brooks, Gwendolyn. In the Mecca; Poems. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

"Chicago's Congo." By Frank Marshall Davis : The Poetry Foundation. Accessed July 31, 2013. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172213.

Cisneros, Sandra. "A House of My Own." Introduction to The House on Mango Street. 25th Anniversary ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1991.

Kotlowitz, Alex. Preface. In There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America. New York: Doubleday, 1991.

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