{"product_id":"african-american-architects-embracing-culture-and-building-urban-communities-hardcover","title":"African American Architects: Embracing Culture and Building Urban Communities - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMelvin L. Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKatherine Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Prepared by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelvin Mitchell believes that the 2016 opening of the NMAAHC signals either a black architect renaissance \u003cem\u003eor \u003c\/em\u003ethe demise of the black architect-practitioner corps in the U.S. by 2040 if not earlier...along with the demise of Black America's cultural, political, and spatial beachheads in America's big cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe argues in this book that America's perennial housing crisis - most acutely manifested in Black America's accelerating displacement from America's cities - must be countered by a new progressive 21\u003csup\u003est \u003c\/sup\u003ecentury \u003cem\u003emovement \u003c\/em\u003ethat re-invents the \u003cem\u003erevolutionary construction-based architecture \u003c\/em\u003emodus operandi deployed 100 years ago by Booker T. Washington. Mitchell believes that Washington completed the build-out of the Tuskegee Institute campus as a counter to America's building of the \"White City\" aka the 1893 Chicago World's Fair-Columbian Exposition 600 miles to the north in Chicago, Illinois.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Today's African American (and African) architects as designers and storytellers--exemplified by the brilliant NMAAHC architects--are a vital necessity but nowhere near sufficient. There is an equally important need for a new generation wing of architects as \"urban community builders.\" Both wings must join forces with Black America's political, cultural, and business leadership in pushing for a Marshall Plan-scale urban economic redevelopment in Black America's city-centered beachheads. Those hard-won lands are being lost at an accelerating pace to massively disruptive gentrification, formerly known as urban renewal-Negro removal.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\" Whether a group of African Americans can aspire to build new towns-in town of 10,000 people or free-standing new cities of 100,000 people - and highly likely majority black populations - and not assumed to be black separatists or anti-integrationists is a huge question mark. That question must be addressed head-on by action.\" \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMitchell argues that the centerpiece of a new \u003cem\u003e\"architecture\" \u003c\/em\u003emust realign with the needs of Black America for major increases in home and business ownership and wealth creation. That requires a massive \"Buy the Block\"-type redevelopment in urban Black America. Today that must entail nothing short of the literal building of at least one million new affordable housing units in urban Black America \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Black America \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ebetween now and 2030. The means to accomplish such a moon shot are there in existing and emerging progressive legislation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe American Housing and Economic Mobility Act, the Green New Deal, and the Opportunity Zones Act must all be harnessed with the trillions of available public dollars, private equity funds, and black nouveau rich wealth to create and sustain an African American-dominated urban affordable housing industry. That may not be \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ethe \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eanswer but is most certainly one of several heretofore missing pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 194\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 10 x 7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45104164765775,"sku":"9781734496024","price":68.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/3083\/3487\/files\/S21zTDEyYnAzNnBHNmY3MmNIbG1hZz09.webp?v=1776388541","url":"https:\/\/lumaryon.com\/products\/african-american-architects-embracing-culture-and-building-urban-communities-hardcover","provider":"Lumaryon Universal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}