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Seema Agnani’s work with South Asian immigrants on housing needs charts a course for legalizing basement apartments to create affordable housing.

affordable housing, Chhaya, city planning, immigrants, immigration, jackson heights, jamaica, policy, retrofit, taking stock, zoning

Unseen Machine

Food and the Shape of Cities

Sarah Rich and Nicola Twilley discuss the impact of food systems on the physical city in advance of Foodprint NYC, an event at Studio-X.

city of patterns, food, infrastructure, interview, nicola twilley, policy, sustainability, symposium, systems, to do, urban agriculture

Writing the City

Empowering the City:
London / New York

Gerald Frug contrasts the structures and powers of city government in London and New York in order to ask a crucial urban question: what are our cities empowered to do?

city government, elsewhere, london, opinion, planning, policy, transit

Writing the City

Double Down on Density

Vishaan Chakrabarti responds to President Obama’s State of the Union Address and considers how heightened investment in the Infrastructure of Tomorrow could be our silver bullet.

A Country of Cities, density, infrastructure, opinion, policy, stimulus, transit, vishaan chakrabarti

Writing the City

The Public Works

Nancy Levinson reviews some provocative positions on infrastructure and challenges designers to recast the relationship between individual initiative and political community.

density, government, infrastructure, opinion, policy, stimulus, writers

Writing the City

Being Dense about Denmark

Vishaan Chakrabarti imagines a city-focused national strategy to make our country healthy, prosperous and green, in response to the 2009 Copenhagen climate change talks.

A Country of Cities, climate change, density, housing, infrastructure, opinion, policy, stimulus, transit, vishaan chakrabarti

Vanguard

One Size Fits Some

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.

affordable housing, architecture, CHPC, density, housing, Making Room, policy, symposium, taking stock

Make It Visible

Making Policy Public:
Predatory Equity

Glen Cummings shares the process of creating the Predatory Equity Survival Guide.

affordable housing, Center for Urban Pedagogy, communication, community organizing, design activism, graphic design, live, Making Policy Public, policy

Make It Visible

Making Policy Public:
Vendor Power!

Candy Chang shares the process of working with the Center for Urban Pedagogy and the Street Vendor Project to demystify the regulations of street vending in New York City.

Center for Urban Pedagogy, communication, community organizing, design activism, food, graphic design, Making Policy Public, policy, street, work