housing
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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.
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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, and has put together a time-lapse video of the demolition.
Cabrini-Green once housed…
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With climate change talks raging in Copenhagen, Vishaan Chakrabarti imagines a city-focused national strategy to make our country healthy, prosperous and green.
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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 week's more developer-friendly rulings for Atlantic Yards and…
12 04 09 • by Urban Omnibus • affordable housing, architecture, bronx, city government, eminent domain, housing, manhattan, roundup
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Deborah Grossberg Katz and Terri Chiao explore how small-scale design can address broader social issues through their research on the systemic cycle of homelessness in the city.
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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.
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On September 24, don’t miss an opportunity to tour Red Lines: Housing Crisis Learning Center with the artist who conceived and designed the exhibit, Damon Rich, and with Queens Museum curator Larissa Harris. The tour, presented by the Architectural League, will be at 3:30 p.m. at…
09 17 09 • by Nick Anderson • architectural league, Center for Urban Pedagogy, exhibition, housing, live event, queens, to do
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Artist and urban planner Neil Freeman reflects on ways web-based art practice, urban planning data and tireless neighborhood exploration can inform each other, using his own work as a case study.
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