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From Mumbai to Manhattan—global solutions to a local problem?
Photo: used by permission under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License from Benjamins Lichtwerk It’s shocking sometimes how, despite immense differences in culture, political structure,...
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Giants in the neighborhood: Can global entities and local initiatives work...
Photo used by permission under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) License from Jacob Anikulapo There’s a busy week coming up at the Lab as ZUS looks to spark discussion...
View ArticleMaking room despite the boom: Can developers help shape neighborhoods of...
Last Wednesday ZUS gave a presentation at the Lab introducing their week’s focus on finding sustainable solutions to gentrification and posing the question: How do we continue to develop great cities...
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Beyond the local, beyond the Lab
To watch someone speak publicly about an idea that has barely germinated feels, in a way, very 21st century. It’s like we’ve passed through the era of expertise and come out on the other side humbled,...
View ArticleMapping urban ethnicity—what do NYC’s shifting demographics tell us about the...
This week the Lab has had a strong focus on multiculturalism, migration, and immigration, which got me wondering about the actual demographics of New York City. In a country where wealth and power are...
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Local Worlds: A Bedford Avenue Slideshow
Discussing his 1970s photo-diary American Surfaces, Stephen Shore notes: “I started photographing everyone I met. Every meal. Every toilet. Every bed I slept in. The streets I walked on. The towns I...
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As we move forward, a nostalgic look back…
One of the beauties of the Lab is that everyone’s experience within it is different. This is true for the audience as well as those of us who have spent every waking hour beneath the Lab’s ceiling for...
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It takes a Village…
Over the past few months, the Lab made a lot of friends. They came from the East Village and Lower East Side; they came from farther away in the city and the world. Now, as the Lab is leaving New York...
View ArticleFriday links: Two takes on visual clutter, Chinese New Year in New York and more
• An estimated 400,000 people packed the blocks of Chinatown in Manhattan for the Chinese Lunar New Year on January 29, catching glimpses of dragons while elbowing each other and getting showered in...
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On Bias, Critique, and Civic Duty: An Interview with an “Unabashedly...
Tom Slater, senior lecturer of human geography at the University of Edinburgh Why study gentrification? It’s a question I’ve long wanted to put to a researcher, in much the same way that I’m often...
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