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Social Housing Green Social Housing at Scale June 25, 2024 Social Housing Building Our Future: Grassroots Reflections on Social Housing May 22, 2024 Social Housing The New York City Social Housing Development Authority: A People First Housing Engine for New York City May 9, 2022 Social Housing Social Housing 2.0 Report April 21, 2022 Beyond The Pandemic Racial Justice and the Right to Remain March 21, 2022 Beyond The Pandemic New White Paper: New York State Policy Response April 12, 2021 Global Fellowship in Urban Practice 2021 Gallatin Global Fellows in Urban Practice Announced January 11, 2021 Beyond The Pandemic New White Paper on Housing Security in The Age of CoVid-19 December 18, 2020 Social Housing The SHDA – A Proposal November 23, 2020 Beyond The Pandemic Why We (Still) Need to Cancel Rent June 24, 2020 Uncategorized Marking Juneteenth June 19, 2020 Urban Humanities and Their Publics In a London on lockdown, community space goes digital April 28, 2020 New Urban Politics and the Right To The City VIDEO: “Justice for Immigrants” (Part 4 of Bending Toward Justice: Building Power for a Post-Pandemic Future) April 27, 2020 New Urban Politics and the Right To The City VIDEO: “Labor Justice” (Part 3 of Bending Toward Justice: Building Power for a Post-Pandemic Future) April 17, 2020 Place, Displacement, & The Politics of Housing VIDEO: Urban Warfare: Housing Justice Under a Global Pandemic (Part 2 of Bending Toward Justice: Building Power for a Post-Pandemic Future) April 14, 2020 Place, Displacement, & The Politics of Housing VIDEO: “Housing Justice” (Part 1 of Bending Toward Justice: Building Power for a Post-Pandemic Future) April 8, 2020 Blog Mutual Aid Resources and Analysis During COVID-19 March 24, 2020 Urban Humanities and Their Publics What do the sites for the Borough-Based Jails plan look like? 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February 6, 2019 New Urban Politics and the Right To The City Angela Davis: Making ‘Radical’ Imaginable November 19, 2018 Media Video: Rebel Architecture: How to Dismantle Power Through Design October 31, 2018 Blog Shaping Sustainable Urban Landscapes in Punggol Eco-town, Singapore October 24, 2018 Blog Evicted LES Community Center is part of a trend in New York City October 15, 2018 Initiatives Video: People’s Cities: A Summit May 29, 2018 Initiatives The Story of the Bronx’s Spofford Juvenile Detention Center May 23, 2018 Initiatives Plazas, Bikes, and Public Art: A ‘Streetfight’ Panel Discussion May 14, 2018 Initiatives Migrant Squatters in Berlin Fighting for the Right to the City May 8, 2018 Initiatives Thinking Beyond the Market: Housing Alternatives from the People April 30, 2018 Initiatives You Can Teach a Man to Farm: Interview with Connor Vaughn, Farm School NYC April 23, 2018 Initiatives Video: Thinking Beyond the Market – Housing Alternatives From the People April 16, 2018 Initiatives Zoning, Academia, and UDL Teach-Ins April 16, 2018 Initiatives RAT FILM Screening and Discussion April 13, 2018 Initiatives Populism, Gender and Language: Lessons from Latin America and Beyond April 7, 2018 Initiatives What is a Model City? Screening and Discussion April 4, 2018 Initiatives Video: Coding While Black: Artificial Intelligence, Computing, and Data in a Racialized World (with Charlton McIlwain and Stephanie Dinkins) April 2, 2018 Initiatives Video: Rat Film- Screening and Discussion with Director Theo Anthony and Historian Paige Glotzer April 2, 2018 Initiatives Board to Death? March 27, 2018 Initiatives Coding While Black: Artificial Intelligence, Computing, and Data in a Racialized World March 12, 2018 Initiatives Resilient Organization/Resilient Community February 19, 2018 Initiatives Chinatown Hunger Strike: The Crisis of 83-85 Bowery February 8, 2018 Initiatives "MUNICIPALISM IN SPAIN From Barcelona to Madrid, and Beyond" (repost from Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung) December 28, 2017 Initiatives REVIEW: The City is the Factory Panel Discussion December 11, 2017 Initiatives Capital City of Contraband: How a Railroad Made and Unmade an Ethiopian City December 4, 2017 Initiatives Capital Sinks: Urban Eco-Resilience In the Face of Capitalist Power Structures November 27, 2017 New Urban Politics and the Right To The City The Outer City: Laïcité and Lack in France’s Postcolonial Banlieues November 20, 2017 Initiatives “El Barrio No Se Vende!”: Righteous Uproar at an East Harlem Rezoning Hearing November 13, 2017 Initiatives VIDEO: After-Effects of the High Line November 6, 2017 Initiatives Review: After-Effects of the High Line November 6, 2017 Blog The Future of The Hole: New York City’s Most Forlorn Bordertown October 30, 2017 Initiatives Criminalizing Dance & Movements Against Police Brutality On Screen: GET LITE and WHOSE STREETS at City Lore October 23, 2017 Urban Humanities and Their Publics After/Life Tells Untold Stories of the ’67 Detroit Rebellion October 19, 2017 Initiatives Photos: The Big Walk 2017 October 18, 2017 Initiatives Review: Peter Moskowitz discusses How to Kill a City October 16, 2017 Initiatives Photos: Book Talk with Peter Moskowitz October 9, 2017 Initiatives Discussing the Legacy of Jane Jacobs October 9, 2017 Initiatives Review: Michael Hardt speaks on Assembly October 4, 2017 Blog Why Your Mortgage Interest Deduction Might Be Bad Housing Policy August 28, 2017 Blog Ethan Earle: "Trump Is Trying to Make NAFTA Even Worse. 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July 3, 2017 Initiatives Fearless Cities: A Dispatch from Barcelona June 15, 2017 Initiatives "Dadaab is a Place on Earth" and African Cities Week June 2, 2017 Initiatives Squatting LES, by Georgina Hahn May 30, 2017 Initiatives Bronx Times on "Narrating Our Neighborhood: The Melrose Oral History Project" May 24, 2017 Initiatives Review: Welcome to the Occupation: Squatting and Resistance from Berlin to New York May 23, 2017 Blog On "Black Palestinian Solidarity in an Age of Struggle" May 11, 2017 Initiatives Video: Welcome to the Occupation: Squatting and Resistance from Berlin to New York May 9, 2017 Initiatives Video: Humanizing Data: Data, Humanities, and the City May 4, 2017 Initiatives Photos: Standing Rock, The 7th Generation, & An Economics for Us All — An Albert Gallatin Lecture with Winona LaDuke April 28, 2017 Initiatives Review: Economic Crisis and Democracy in Brazil – A Talk by Dilma Rousseff April 25, 2017 Initiatives Video: "When I See Them, I See Us: Black Palestinian Solidarity in an Age of Struggle" April 24, 2017 Initiatives Report on UDL Teach-In: Gentrification April 19, 2017 Initiatives Dadaab is a Place on Earth: Interview with Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi April 14, 2017 Initiatives Review of "Humanizing Data: Data, Humanities, and the City" April 13, 2017 Initiatives Video: Barcelona Deputy Mayor Gerardo Pisarello on Sanctuary Cities March 22, 2017 New Urban Politics and the Right To The City Love Thy Neighbor? — Public Housing, The Tafelberg Saga, and the Future of Integration in Cape Town March 3, 2017 Initiatives Gray Space and Creeping Urban Apartheid March 1, 2017 Initiatives “Aquí estamos y no nos vamos”: Combatting Construction as Tenant Harassment February 8, 2017 Initiatives Review: “Carboniferous”: Climate and Social Justice in NYC February 2, 2017 Initiatives Arts & Democracy Workshops: Cultural Organizing for Community Change December 8, 2016 Initiatives Video: "Brazil’s Rightward Turn, a Conversation with Leonardo Avritzer" December 6, 2016 Initiatives Review of "The Politics of Documenting Neighborhood Change" November 23, 2016 Initiatives Video: "The Politics of Documenting Neighborhood Change" November 23, 2016 Initiatives Hope the Pitanga Cherries Grow: An ethnographic look at Luanda November 16, 2016 Initiatives Dispatch from Habitat III in Quito, Ecuador, October 2016 November 1, 2016 Initiatives Coal, Communism and Borders: Professor Glassheim on the Czech City of Most November 1, 2016 Initiatives Housing Research Helps Organizers Understand Williamsburg Issues October 24, 2016 Initiatives Video: "The Right to the City as Human Right" October 24, 2016 Initiatives Photos: "The Right to the City as a Human Right" October 7, 2016 Initiatives Interview With Ruchira Gupta, Founder and President of Apne Aap Women Worldwide September 6, 2016 Initiatives I Can Sell My Body If I Wanna: Riot Grrrl Body Writing, Feminist Resistance, and Neoliberalism: An Illustrated Lecture with Leah Perry September 2, 2016 Initiatives "Brownstone Brooklyn: Pioneers in the Gentrification Movement" at Brooklyn Historical Society August 29, 2016 Initiatives Just Utilities: Organizing for Solutions to the Household Energy Crisis August 25, 2016 Initiatives Why Cities and Universities Need a New Kind of Dialogue August 25, 2016 Initiatives A View from a New York City Rent Guidelines Board Meeting, June 13, 2016 July 25, 2016 Initiatives “Call and Response: Black Power 50 Years Later” at Brooklyn Historical Society July 21, 2016 Initiatives Review: “If you can’t afford to live here, mo-o-ove” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash July 19, 2016 Initiatives Introducing our Summer Blogger: Ayesha Sharma July 19, 2016 Initiatives Landscapes of Creative Destruction: Regenerating the Postindustrial City June 3, 2016 Initiatives Video: Landscapes of Creative Destruction — Regenerating the Postindustrial City May 20, 2016 Initiatives Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City May 9, 2016 Initiatives Review of Dystopian Urbanisms April 13, 2016 Initiatives Review of East LA Interchange April 8, 2016 Initiatives Interview with Suren Pillay: Decolonizing Higher Education March 31, 2016 Initiatives Review: Sayed Kashua on Cultural Criticism through Humor March 24, 2016 Initiatives Millennials Are Taking to the Streets to Defend Democracy in Brazil March 23, 2016 Initiatives NYU Student Activism on Campus March 18, 2016 Initiatives Review: Democratizing the Green City: What Environmental Improvement Means for Gentrification March 4, 2016 Initiatives The New Wild West: Money and the 2016 Presidential Cycle February 29, 2016 Initiatives Review: No Revolution Without Us: Feminists of the Black Panther Party, with Lynn C. French and Salamishah Tillet February 22, 2016 Initiatives Video: Feminists of the Black Panther Party, with Lynn C. French and Salamishah Tillet February 11, 2016 Initiatives Interview with Fees Must Fall, a student-led movement in South Africa February 8, 2016 Initiatives Student Debt from Two Perspectives: Interviews with Ken Ilgunas and Sophie Lasoff December 10, 2015 Initiatives Video: Citizenship and New Forms of Active Participation: The European Experience December 3, 2015 Initiatives Video: The Fire This Time: Decolonizing Higher Education, A Conversation with Suren Pillay and Juan González December 2, 2015 Initiatives Review: Partnering for Impact: What It Means To Be a "Good" Community Partner November 17, 2015 Initiatives Review: Towards Dystopian Democracies in Europe and the USA? November 9, 2015 Initiatives "‘This is not a crisis; it is a scam": Guest blogger Sophie Gonick on Speculation Nation November 9, 2015 Initiatives Interview with Leanne Brown, author of GOOD AND CHEAP October 29, 2015 Initiatives Review: Transforming the City: Using Culture to Address Intractable Problems with Antanas Mockus October 26, 2015 Initiatives Photos: Antanas Mockus, "Life is Sacred" – Oct. 20th October 26, 2015 Initiatives Politics of the Square: Discussion with Asef Bayat October 23, 2015 Initiatives The Elusive Goal of Housing Justice, Part II October 15, 2015 Initiatives The Elusive Goal of Housing Justice, Part I September 30, 2015 Initiatives Review, Conference: America & Its Unfit: Eugenics Then & Now September 29, 2015 Initiatives Video: (Still) The Progressive Mayor? Bill de Blasio in Year Two September 21, 2015 Initiatives Interview with Prof. Jack Tchen, Historian and Director of NYU's A/P/A Institute September 2, 2015 Initiatives Interview with Kevin Caplicki, Interference Archive on "if a song could be freedom…" July 24, 2015 Initiatives Video: "Taking It to The Streets: Artists, Scientists & Sustainability" June 29, 2015 Initiatives Book Talk Review: Diversity Explosion with William Frey June 24, 2015 Initiatives Video: At the Grassroots: Urban Gardening as Politics June 22, 2015 Initiatives Review: Eduardo Maura of PODEMOS Discusses Spanish Politics June 18, 2015 Initiatives Video: "Globalizing Knowledge: Intellectuals, Universities, and Publics in Transformation" June 5, 2015 Initiatives PHOTOS: Opening Night of "(Dis)Placed Urban Histories…" at El Museo de Los Sures May 19, 2015 Initiatives Video: "Infrastructures of Resilience and Their Discontents" May 19, 2015 Initiatives Video: Antanas Mockus – "The Right to Have Rights: Citizenship Culture and the Future of Cities" April 22, 2015 Initiatives Video: Raquel Rolnik – "Urban Warfare: the Colonization of Urban Land and Housing" April 22, 2015 Initiatives Frances Moore Lappe on Food and Democracy April 9, 2015 Initiatives Am I Rent Stabilized? Data Visualization as Housing Activism with Chris Hendrick April 9, 2015 Initiatives The Making of New York Tenants Project: An Interview with Claudia Prat April 9, 2015 Initiatives Visualizing Tenant Activism: A Report from Our March 10 Event April 9, 2015 Initiatives Video: Frances Moore Lappé – "Fat, Famine & Froot Loops: Where's Democracy When We Need It?" March 31, 2015 Initiatives Telling a People's History of New York City March 16, 2015 Initiatives Why Students Should Better Understand Gentrification: Serena Adlerstein of Know Your City Guest-Blogs March 5, 2015 Initiatives Video: The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement, February 17, 2015 February 26, 2015 Initiatives Video: We Are Revolutionaries – What Black Power Tells Us About Democracy in America, February 10, 2015 February 24, 2015 Initiatives PHOTOS: The Occupiers: The Making of a 99 Percent Movement, February 17, 2015 February 19, 2015 Initiatives Brandon Kielbasa and Claire Birmingham, Tenants' Rights on the Lower East Side January 8, 2015 Initiatives VIDEO: Infrastructures of Labor, December 8, 2014 December 22, 2014 Initiatives VIDEO: "I Am Lucrece": Rethinking Sexual Violence, November 10, 2014 November 18, 2014 Initiatives Rosalind Fredericks, Assistant Professor, NYU/Gallatin November 18, 2014 Initiatives Caron Atlas, Director of Arts & Democracy Project, Co-Director of NOCD-NY November 4, 2014 Initiatives Photos: "Pardon the Inconvenience…": Brazil's Revolution in the Streets October 15, 2014 Initiatives Video: They Can't Represent Us! "Occupy" in Global Context" October 1, 2014 Initiatives Photos: They Can't Represent Us! "Occupy" in Global Context September 24, 2014 Initiatives Video: The Progressive Mayor? Bill de Blasio So Far September 3, 2014 Initiatives Video: The democratic green city: From above and below May 8, 2014 Initiatives Video: Democratizing the Green City April 20, 2014
