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Affordable Housing
West of Nathan's: Planning Coney Island's Residential Community
Housing advocate Oksana Mironova investigates the planning policies and housing developments that have shaped the often-overlooked residential side of Coney Island and calls for investment in a neighborhood facing challenges of poverty, climate change, and affordability loss.
Electchester: A City Made for Workers
Labor journalist Ari Paul visits Electchester, a Queens housing complex constructed by a labor union of electricians, and uncovers a history that provokes urgent questions about contemporary housing challenges.
The Landscape of Housing: Twin Parks Northwest 40 Years On
Susanne Schindler and Juliette Spertus revisit Twin Parks with its original designers, 40 years after its construction, to pose some complex questions about the role of design in defining the success of low-income housing.
Affordable and Attainable: A Conversation on Housing with Lindsay Haddix
The Chief of Staff for the Office of Development at HPD explains the agency's strategies for funding, incentivizing, developing, and preserving affordable housing in New York City.
Dwelling and Resilience
In a recent design studio set in the context of the public housing system, Andrew Bernheimer and David Leven challenged Parsons students to confront the environmental, social, municipal, and architectural demands of creating housing in New York City.
#NYCHousing: 10 Issues for NYC's Next Mayor
The Moelis Institute for Affordable Housing Policy at NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy issues ten briefs on the main affordable housing issues facing the City’s next mayor.
Thomas Hirschhorn's Precious and Precarious Bronx
Writer Steven Thomson and photographer Cameron Blaylock respond to Thomas Hirschhorn's Gramsci Monument, a conceptual sculpture commemorating an Italian philosopher installed at a NYCHA complex in the Bronx.
The Big Squeeze: Illustrating Micro-Unit Housing
Center for Urban Pedagogy teaching artist Chat Travieso works with high school students in Bushwick to simplify and illustrate the complexities of micro-unit housing.
Typecast
Typecast is a long-term Architectural League study into architectural typologies that begins with a closer look at five "towers-in-the-park," one in each borough of New York City.
Portfolio: Co-op City
As part of Typecast, an investigation into five "towers-in-the-park" across New York City, Amani Willett photographs Co-op City in the Bronx.