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Rosalie Genevro offers a historical snapshot of Starrett City and challenges us to question conventional notions of “house” and “home” in American culture. |
IMPROVING JAMAICA BAY PARKS
Mayor Bloomberg, along with representatives of the US Department of the Interior, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the New York City and State Departments of Environmental Conservation, this week announced a joint project to improve parkland and water quality in and around 10,000 acres of Jamaica Bay. By… 
Earlier this month we introduced you to Making Room, a research, design and advocacy project to shape the city’s housing stock to address the changing needs of how we live today.
This week, the Citizens Housing and Planning Council (CHPC) and the Architectural League are pleased to announce the Making Room
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Introducing Making Room: a research, design and advocacy project to shape New York’s housing stock to address the changing needs of how we live now. |
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Representatives from three interdisciplinary teams of college students in the New York metro area share how they are taking on the challenge of this year’s Solar Decathlon. |
About four years ago, a latent pattern of unethical, self-interested and surreptitious decision-making reared its head to wreak havoc in the American housing market. Americans were living on a dream buoyed by false hope: we thought we could have it all. But as millions defaulted on mortgages with unmanageable interest rates, made on credit they…
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Thaddeus Pawlowski reflects on his participation in a recent professional urban design exchange between São Paulo and New York. |
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Bronwyn Breitner and James Slade describe how their students reconsidered one of our most familiar architectural spaces, the residence, in the context of the Bronx’s Lower Concourse. |
DIGITAL ROADMAP
As the digital age descends on NYC, the Bloomberg administration has a plan. Rachel Sterne (the recently appointed 27-year old, first-ever, Chief Digital Officer of New York), recently unveiled the Roadmap for the Digital City, a plan that draws on a 90-day collection of dialogue between the tech community, citizens and the city. Providing…
The New York Apartment
This week, New York Magazine has a huge spread on New York City apartments and neighborhoods, in an issue dedicated to “one of the things that has most defined New York life for centuries and has become a unit of measurement for our successes and failures: the apartment.” Check…
