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Sociologist Dalton Conley takes us on a walk through the public housing complexes where he grew up, reflecting on the economics of housing policy and the limits of design. |
The Chicago Housing Authority has slowly been tearing down its Cabrini-Green public housing project, and as of yesterday another one of the buildings is gone. Ryan Flynn has been documenting the transformation of the site for the past few years, …
As you’ve probably heard by now, a state appeals court has barred the use of eminent domain for parts of a 17 acre site intended for development by Columbia University, ruling the condemnation unconstitutional. This on the heels of last …
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This symposium is part of the Citizen’s Housing & Planning Council’s broad-based investigation of housing and space standards in New York City. Read, watch, listen and respond. |
This week we listened to some new strategies to involve community stakeholders in the design of public spaces, strategies tested in the parks of Manhattan’s Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Meanwhile, across the country in LA’s Chinatown, urban planner …
This Thursday, the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is presenting another installment of their excellent People and Buildings series of live talk shows. This one will shed light on the fascinating back-story of the partnership, leadership, reverendship and, er, ‘architectship’ that has, to date,
Nothing screams “Summertime!” like the adjourning of an Albany legislative session. This time, State Senators left more than just the usual state politics soap opera in limbo. Mayor Bloomberg’s control of city’s schools is also unresolved.
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Glen Cummings shares the process of creating the Predatory Equity Survival Guide. |
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In this piece, Holly Leicht, Deputy Commissioner of Development at HPD, explains the recent history of the city’s involvement in East New York. |
