![]() ![]() city to open federally-financed and locally-administered public housing developments to low-income families in need of safe and sanitary housing (Techwood Homes). In 1936, the City of Atlanta was the first U.S. Rodriguez was recently awarded a Spencer Foundation grant to study how educational advocates mobilize around school facility planning processes. She is the author of Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public Housing, which explores how the politics of public housing planning and race in Atlanta created a politics of resistance within its public housing developments. Dr. Her research examines the ways that disenfranchised groups re-appropriate their marginalized spaces in the city to gain access to and sustain urban political power. Akira Drake Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design. ![]()
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