Gown Goes to Town: Negotiating Mutually Beneficial Relationships between College Students, City Planners, and a Historically Marginalized African-American Neighborhood
Abstract
:1. Introduction
“You can’t talk about Griffin Heights without talking about Springfield, or Frenchtown because it was one. We were all one. Of course we had our own communities named this, that and the other … but this [Lawrence Gregory Community Center] was the hub here. Where everyone came, where everyone was together, this is where we were, this is where we had the arts and crafts for the whole community.”—Griffin Heights resident
2. University–Community Partnerships and African-American Community Activism
3. Case Study Methodology and Local Planning Context
3.1. Case Study Methodology
3.2. Tallahassee and Griffin Heights
3.3. Neighborhood First Planning Process
“A strategic, neighborhood-lead [sic] planning initiative staffed by Neighborhood Affairs and supported by the Tallahassee-Leon County Planning Department and other city departments.”
4. The City–University–Community Partnership in Griffin Heights
4.1. Role of Community Participation and Involvement Course
4.2. Role of Urban Design Course
5. Reflections on Lessons Learned
5.1. Inflexible Timelines and Adaptability
5.2. Importance of Community Buy-In
5.3. Communication and Capacity
5.4. Bureaucracy and Institutional Constraints
5.5. Financial Constraints
6. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Jackson, A.; Holmes, T.; McCreary, T. Gown Goes to Town: Negotiating Mutually Beneficial Relationships between College Students, City Planners, and a Historically Marginalized African-American Neighborhood. Societies 2020, 10, 61. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc10030061
Jackson A, Holmes T, McCreary T. Gown Goes to Town: Negotiating Mutually Beneficial Relationships between College Students, City Planners, and a Historically Marginalized African-American Neighborhood. Societies. 2020; 10(3):61. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc10030061
Chicago/Turabian StyleJackson, April, Tisha Holmes, and Tyler McCreary. 2020. "Gown Goes to Town: Negotiating Mutually Beneficial Relationships between College Students, City Planners, and a Historically Marginalized African-American Neighborhood" Societies 10, no. 3: 61. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc10030061