APPROPRIATION - REVITALIZATION BY MEXICAN-AMERICANS AT CHICAGO. “HOLDING AN IDENTITY”

Abstract

The neighborhood community of Pilsen at Chicago has been coming attendance diversities of actions and efforts in order to revitalizing and identified this urban space before multicultural, now for the Mexican Americans.  Studies realized at Chicago city, allowed us to know the actions and proceedings of some in order to appropriate the public space by who are coming to the city. Pilsen is one of the most ancient of this city and there are who have been working to revitalize this place. The objectives and actions they have set up in order to look for of the Mexican immigrated to this city. For the resurrection project one of this kind association, whose has in the last twenty years, they have been able to developing multiple actions to find not only identity, besides dignify housing and Mexican immigrants in this city. The National museum of art (NMMA) is other association who has been to get the identity. This museum has become to public and social space in order to build and gets Mexican identity in this multicultural city. Throughout of this study pretend to expose the main achievements, limitations and challengers, on social and spatial revitalization of this place taking over by the Mexican immigrants mostly in this city.