COMMUNITY BUILDING.......

Community Building is the concerted effort by residents of a particular area to aide / support the enhancement of their neighborhoods. As demonstrated in article 19 of the text, individuals taking an interest in the area they reside, is traditionally the way changes are implemented in a community.

In Chicago's Edgewater community.....there is The Edgewater Development Corporation (EDC) which is a local non-profit (501c3), community-based organization with the mission to redevelop the commercial resources of Edgewater to better serve the entire Edgewater Community.

Some of the efforts by EDC include the following:

EDC is pleased to present the community's vision for the Red Line Stations and the surrounding commercial districts in Edgewater. In the spring of 2007, over 150 community leaders and residents invested valuable time and effort to develop this vision through a series of community planning sessions, also known as “charrettes.” These charrettes focused on three major issues: the features and amenities desired in the stations; the urban design of the business districts adjacent to the stations; and retail offerings in these business districts.