Talk:Robert Taylor Homes
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Deleted "Arguably, the most famous person to come from the project was baseball superstar Kirby Puckett (1960-2006), who played with the American League's Minnesota Twins from 1984 to 1996." ... a rather fuzzy statement, and Mr. T took Conan O'Brien to the site of his former home in the Taylor projects.
Sources
I'm currently conducting historical research on this subject; sources include:
Rosenbaum, James E. & Rubinowitz, Leonard S. Crossing the Class and Color Lines: From public housing to white suburbia, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Philpott, Thomas L. The Slum and the Ghetto: Neighborhood deterioration and middle-class reform, Chicago, 1880-1930, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 1978.
Husock, Howard. America’s Trillion Dollar Housing Mistake: The failure of American housing policy, Chicago, IL, Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2003.
Please add these in the appropriate sections of the article. Count de Chagny 04:37, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Here is one more (German) source:
Kasper, B. (2004) Stadterneuerungspolitik in Chicago. In: Petz, U. (Hrgs.) "Going West?" Stadtplanung in den USA - gestern und heute. Dortmunder Beiträge zur raumplanung 116, S. 69-99 Kaffeeringe.de 23:22, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Problems with History Section
There are some major problems with the history section of this article. The main issue is tense; the section refers to the "prime years" in the present tense, even though that was a long time ago. It references "a recent weekend" but when was that? There are no citations for any of this information, and most of it is clearly copied from the "www.findarticles.com" link listed at the bottom of the page. Also, there are many grammatical and continuity problems.
- The section reads like an essay as well, which isn't really appropriate. Natalie 23:50, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
Another Problem with History Section
There's some issue about the naming. Clarence Williams' article (MIT -- linked in the external sites section) says that the projects were named after MIT alumnus (class of 1892 -- first Black to graduate from MIT), Robert Robinson Taylor. The current article states that the projects were named after a Robert Taylor who sat on the Chicago Housing Authority board in the 1950s. MIT alumnus Taylor died in 1942 so the naming would have been posthumous -- though Robert Taylor (even Robert Robinson Taylor) is probably a common name. Can someone clear this up? Coincidence (CHA board member Taylor and MIT alum Taylor sharing the same name) or an error somewhere?
Chris (talk) 21:18, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
- Added citation to Illinois State Historical Society paper. --John Nagle (talk) 15:36, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
Copyright Violation?
The latest edit seems to add a significant amount of text directly from the CNN article posted yesterday: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/08/taylor.homes.ap/index.html
Article reverted to previous revision. Msolson 21:12, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
- Please remove this link as a source on the page, as it is no longer valid. 216.47.133.135 18:27, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Quality
There's a lot of rumour in this article. Maybe it should be put on some solid ground and be partly rewritten. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaffeeringe.de (talk • contribs)
- Agreed. Much has been written about the Robert Taylor Homes. I added one good citation to a historical study. There are entire books on the subject. --John Nagle (talk) 15:50, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
Sudhir Venkatesh
Discussion of the veracity of his research should go on his page, but re: this one, it's worth noting that in the chapters of Freakonomics, the gang mentioned is the Black Disciples (an actual gang, but with a different history than that portrayed), whereas apparently in Mr. Venkatesh's new book the same group is called the Black Kings (which doesn't appear elsewhere in online discussion of Chicago's gangs (the actual gang was the Black King Cobras)). More research/other sources are probably needed. -114.91.67.205 (talk) 10:45, 24 August 2009 (UTC)