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Deborah Gans

Designing Mamdani’s New York

At the start of a new mayoral administration promising an urban transformation, eight practitioners discuss architecture’s role in shaping the social democratic city.
Architecture, Policy
Nandini Bagchee, Andrew Bernheimer, Karolina Czeczek, Richard Dattner, Ifeoma Ebo, Deborah Gans, Adam Lubinsky, Georgeen Theodore, and Mariana Mogilevich • Feb 04, 2026

It Takes a Village to Weather a Storm

In Sheepshead Bay, designing for resilience at a scale somewhere between the city and the single-family house.
Architecture, Environment, Housing
Deborah Gans • Oct 11, 2018