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News from Home
Reported from the imaginations of those on the front lines of New York City's housing struggles, a newspaper from the future brings tidings of homes for all.
What's Growing?
Urban agriculture today extends from small community gardens to commercial hydroponics. New York City seeks to cultivate its many benefits.
An Electrician
There is no shortage of work for a member of IBEW Local 3: shoring up building systems to withstand flooding and preparing for an electrification boom.
East Harlem Gets Ready
For high school students in the Climate Resilience Leadership Lab, emergency preparedness means mobilizing the neighborhood.
Do You Remember How It Was?
Residents recall a decade of upheaval in the East New York Oral History Project.
Our Fair City
50 years after the passage of a landmark law, how will New York City assess the fairness of its housing?
Beyond Resilience
Nearly six years after Sandy flooded basements and uprooted trees, Red Hook Houses is still in recovery. But designers from KPF and OLIN see a future brighter than survival, when infrastructure combines with art and the landscape rises above the waterline.
NYCHA
In our seventh Brass Tacks discussion, Rasmia Kirmani-Frye, President of the Fund for Public Housing, leveled with us on public housing’s unique role in the city and the challenges NYCHA must face.
Disrupting the Superblock: Speculative Designs for NYCHA
Twelve students, six proposals, three sites: budding urban designers and architects re-envision New York City public housing.
"The scythe of progress must move northward”: Urban Renewal on the Upper West Side
Oksana Mironova documents varied approaches to City-led redevelopment in Lincoln Square and the West Side Urban Renewal Area and calls for an evolution of contemporary rezonings to prioritize the preservation of existing communities.