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Glossary

adaptively reused (uh-DAP-tiv-lee ree-YOOZD) ingenuity (in-juh-NOO-ih-tee) inventiveness
to reuse a structure for a purpose other than
that which it was originally designed to serve Jim Crow laws (JIM KROH LAWZ) laws in the
United States that legalized segregation from
blight (BLITE) visible decline or decay the late-19th to mid-20th centuries and set
different rules for black and white Americans
collective (kuh-LEK-tiv) as a group
shotgun-style (SHAHT-guhn STILE) a one-story,
entrepreneurs (ahn-truh-pruh-NURZ) people one-room-wide house
who launch, organize, and operate a business
social sculptures (SOH-shuhl SKUHLP-churz)
facades (fuh-SAHDZ) the front parts of ideas advocated by artist Joseph Beuys that
buildings that face the street art can transform society if all actions are
gentrification (jen-trih-fuh-KAY-shuhn) when thought of creatively and if all citizens are
spaces in a community are renovated and regarded as creators
rebuilt, and housing becomes too expensive symposia (sim-POH-zee-uh) conferences
for its longtime residents or meetings developed around a set topic
incarcerated (in-KAR-suh-ray-tid) imprisoned vernacular (vur-NAH-kyuh-lur) architecture
or in jail that is found in a specific place, built with
specific materials

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