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Smith Houses: A Legacy of Activism
Typecast is the Architectural League’s long-term investigation into architectural typologies, starting with “towers-in-the-park.” The term refers to complexes of multi-family, high-rise housing,...
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Joseph Shuldiner Knows Public Housing
In the face of years of disinvestment, an aging housing stock with a backlog of maintenance needs, and a controversial plan to develop new properties within public housing campuses, the New York City...
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A Scheme on a Bluff: The View from Todt Hill Houses
In the third article in our Typecast series, writer Brad Fox travels to Todt Hill Houses on Staten Island. Safe, suburban, and well-maintained, Todt Hill defies many of the stereotypes of New York City...
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The Storm That Will Be: Protecting Public Housing in the New 100-Year Floodplain
It’s been two years since Superstorm Sandy made landfall in the New York metro area, bringing newfound clarity to the urgent need for climate risk preparedness in the region. Large scale and high...
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Maintaining NYCHA: Debunking the Myth of Unmanageable High-Rise Public Housing
“If American urbanists and politicians share any conventional wisdom across political divides, it is the idea that public housing failed in every possible dimension.” So begins the new collection...
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“The scythe of progress must move northward”: Urban Renewal on the Upper West...
The Upper West Side calls to mind stately apartment buildings, world-class performance venues, and, perhaps above all, affluence. But as with any stereotype of a New York City neighborhood — especially...
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The 7th Annual Thanksgiving Roundup
On Staten Island, a flock of 90-some turkeys — the inspiration for reimagining the grounds of the South Beach Psychiatric Center as a Turkey National Park — is in limbo as an upstate sanctuary...
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Disrupting the Superblock: Speculative Designs for NYCHA
The city’s largest residential landlord, the New York City Housing Authority, is in crisis.[1] A current exhibition showcases some provocative solutions, crafted by urban design and architecture...
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NYCHA
In our seventh Brass Tacks discussion, Rasmia Kirmani-Frye, President of the Fund for Public Housing and Director of the Office of Public/Private Partnerships at the New York City Housing Authority...
View ArticleBeyond Resilience
Nearly 7 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...
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50 years after the passage of a landmark law, how will New York City assess the fairness of its housing? The post Our Fair City appeared first on Urban Omnibus.
View ArticleDo You Remember How It Was?
Residents recall a decade of upheaval in the East New York Oral History Project. The post Do You Remember How It Was? appeared first on Urban Omnibus.
View ArticleEast Harlem Gets Ready
For high school students in the Climate Resilience Leadership Lab, emergency preparedness means mobilizing the neighborhood. The post East Harlem Gets Ready appeared first on Urban Omnibus.
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