April 25, 2025 Ι Bloomberg CityLab The items on display at the new National Public Housing Museum in Chicago are almost defiant in their ordinariness. There’s a hammer once used by a resident of the city’s Stateway Gardens development; an iron skillet from a family living in Houston’s Cuney Homes; a hose that once watered… Continue reading At the National Public Housing Museum, an Embattled Idea Finds a Home
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In One of Chicago’s Most Affluent Neighborhoods, Hidden Stories of Resistance Unveiled By App
Next City Ι November 20, 2020 The Armitage-Halsted historic district in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood is renowned for its well-preserved collection of 19th-century architecture and commercial streetscapes, filled with Victoria-era ornamentation, pressed metal bays, and classic Chicago corner turrets. Today, Lincoln Park is a thoroughly gentrified site of winners-circle complacency; dog parks, stroller moms in… Continue reading In One of Chicago’s Most Affluent Neighborhoods, Hidden Stories of Resistance Unveiled By App
The National Public Housing Museum Eyes a 2021 Opening
The Atlantic’s CityLab Ι Dec. 3, 2019 When you’re working to establish a museum with such contested subject matter as the National Public Housing Museum (NPHM), it pays to have a few shorthand expressions within easy reach, lest anyone get confused about creating a curatorial platform for an institution many associate with failure. Crystal Palmer,… Continue reading The National Public Housing Museum Eyes a 2021 Opening