Currently experiencing a rebirth after many years of neglect, the North Shore of Staten Island is once again at a historic crossroad. Large-scale development and investment along the waterfront and in the St. George civic center is attracting new businesses, middle-income residents and workers to the area, and the streets are livelier than in the [...]
Across the Yards examines the East Long Island City area in Queens, New York. More than 50,000 students and office workers use the area, which has historically been dominated by industrial and manufacturing uses. Despite its important role as host to a major educational institution and to workplaces for a significant number of New Yorkers, [...]
Resiliency often invokes ideas of large-scale, sudden emergencies like Hurricane Sandy or Hurricane Katrina: disasters of such massive scope that they envelop whole cities in a collective crisis. This only makes sense: events like these pose huge threats to the systems that people depend upon for stability, and are a dramatic departure from our daily [...]
