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Old 05-23-2012, 09:41 PM
 
Location: Prosper
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Hello,

I am an architecture student at UT Arlington and belong to the AIAS and received an email today regarding a design competition focusing on the future of libraries.

As I was reading through the design criteria, it stated that I needed to "Choose an existing library from a low-income area...", using products that the main sponsor produces, and update the library to be more efficient, sustainable, in synch with the ever changing, technological world, etc.

I could spend days digging through lists of local libraries from all the different cities in the metro, then looking to see what kind of neighbourhood each is in, so I decided to appeal to the masses for perhaps finding a hidden gem somewhere that this would be good for without spending all summer just trying to find a suitable location to base my design on.

I am not entirely sure what qualifies to the sponsor of the contest or AIAS as "low-income", but I guess HUD would be the determining body of that.

Input is greatly appreciated.
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Old 05-23-2012, 10:18 PM
 
Location: Dallas area, Texas
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GLADYS HARRINGTON LIBRARY in East Plano is in a low income area. The elementary school only two blocks away is a Title I school. The homes in the area are some of the oldest and smallest in Plano.

The library itself was the first library in Plano and is a great place. Love to go there to check out books.
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Old 05-24-2012, 10:09 AM
 
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Look at Forest-Green near TI in Dallas. Serves, among others, African-Immigrants.

You could also look at the MLK branch in Fair Park or the West branch on Singleton. I haven't personally been to those though.
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Old 05-24-2012, 10:46 AM
 
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GLADYS HARRINGTON LIBRARY in East Plano is in a low income area.
Oh, please.

OP, just go to the Dallas Library website and pick a branch that is south of the Trinity.
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Old 05-24-2012, 06:11 PM
 
Location: Prosper
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Oh, please.

OP, just go to the Dallas Library website and pick a branch that is south of the Trinity.
That was my original thought, but didn't know if anyone might have known some that fit that criteria that were unique in some way, somewhere else.

Guess I will start there.

Thank you.
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Old 05-26-2012, 07:36 PM
 
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Bachman Lake Branch
9480 Webb Chapel Road

Neighborhood (to the west) has a lot of newer immigrants from Central America.

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Pleasant Grove Branch
7310 Lake June Road

Lower middle class area with a large Latin (Hispanic) population.

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Prairie Creek Branch
9609 Lake June Rd.

Lower middle class area that's basically split between Black and Latin.

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The branches located in Highland Hills, East Oak Cliff, and South Dallas are in low income areas that are majority
black, with a few neighborhood's that are majority Latin.

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