Chosen as the site of the new Obama Library, Woodlawn 2025 brought together local groups, residents, and urban designers to ensure that longtime residents would not only see the benefits of the Presidential Center’s impact, but would also define the future of their neighbourhood.
CASE
Woodlawn 2025: Community-led Change on Chicago's South Side
September 6, 2019 | Scott Fletcher Bowlsby |
- General Issues
- Planning & Development
- Scope of Influence
- Neighbourhood
- Start Date
- End Date
- Ongoing
- No
- Time Limited or Repeated?
- A single, defined period of time
- Purpose/Goal
- Make, influence, or challenge decisions of government and public bodies
- Develop the civic capacities of individuals, communities, and/or civil society organizations
- Deliver goods & services
- Approach
- Co-governance
- Consultation
- Spectrum of Public Participation
- Involve
- Open to All or Limited to Some?
- Open to All With Special Effort to Recruit Some Groups
- Targeted Demographics
- Low-Income Earners
- Stakeholder Organizations
- Racial/Ethnic Groups
- General Types of Methods
- Planning
- Deliberative and dialogic process
- Collaborative approaches
- General Types of Tools/Techniques
- Plan, map and/or visualise options and proposals
- Recruit or select participants
- Specific Methods, Tools & Techniques
- Collaborative Planning
- Participatory Urban Planning
- Legality
- Yes
- Facilitators
- Yes
- Facilitator Training
- Trained, Nonprofessional Facilitators
- Face-to-Face, Online, or Both
- Face-to-Face
- Decision Methods
- General Agreement/Consensus
- Type of Organizer/Manager
- For-Profit Business
- Type of Funder
- For-Profit Business
- Staff
- Yes
- Volunteers
- No
- Evidence of Impact
- Yes
- Implementers of Change
- Elected Public Officials
- Appointed Public Servants