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Induced Homelessness in NYC?
A rendering of what could have been: the Lower Manhattan Expressway, as realized by Paul Rudolph in the late ’70s. It’s rare to see the New York Times leading off the morning with a story about...
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Tuesday Brew
John Grade, via Fast.Co Design. It’s an in-motion Brew today, with three great videos making up the majority of the news. Ghosts, Bjarke Ingels, and Public Housing mythologies, after the jump. PSA for...
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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
“It seemed to us that we were being penalized for being poor. That caused so much anger.” – One-time Pruitt-Igoe resident Jacquelyn Williams, in the new documentary The Pruitt-Igoe Myth The public...
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Occupying a Modernist Facade, From the Public Housing it Overshadowed
Image via Atlantic Wire. 20,000 people walked across the Brooklyn Bridge last night. Whether or not you agree with the aims of Occupy Wall Street is irrelevant: this is an urban intervention at a...
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Pleasure Dome: A Public Meeting Space Cracks Open Geodesic Design
Danish architects Kristoffer Tejlgaard and Benny Jepsen were commissioned by Denmark’s Public Housing to create a site-specific structure that would truly push the boundaries of what we know as a...
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