Placemaking Video Features Hunter Grad
Leah Rosofky, a recent graduate of our MSUPL program, is featured in a new video about placemaking: https://lnkd.in/eTSdTKgG
Future of Public Housing
Professor Bloom discussed the prospects for subsidized housing under the new administration. Read here.
Professor Bloom talks City of Yes on CBS New York
Professor Nicholas Dagen Bloom spoke with Ali Bauman at CBS New York on the City of Yes initiative. New York City is playing catch-up to other progressive cities like Minneapolis by modernizing its zoning code to allow for additional market and affordable housing citywide. You can watch the segment here: https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/new-york-city-affordable-housing-city-of-yes-proposal/
UPP Associate Professor Matthew Lasner featured in Curbed article
Associate Professor Matthew Lasner was quoted in an article in New York magazine’s Curbed (“‘I’m Not Sure Whether I Wanted It to Go This Far’ A Fight Over Garden-bed Rotations and Democratic Living At One of the City’s Most Storied Co-ops") about rising tensions among the homeowners at Manhattan’s Penn South limited-equity cooperative.
Profs. Jill Gross and Sigmund Shipp Participate in a Chat on Race and Class
Profs. Jill Gross and Sigmund Shipp were invited and participated in the "Race and Class Chat" sponsored by the New York State Human Rights Commission on Friday, March 26, 2021.
Prof. Matthew Lasner Co-Authors Editorial Calling Upon Those Who Study Built Environment to Bear Witness to Racialized Injustices
Prof. Matthew Lasner has co-authored an editorial, Power to Witness, calling upon those who study the built environment, globally, to bear witness to racialized injustices and other systemic assaults on BIPOC and the right to peacefully protest.
UPP Chair Joseph Viteritti’s Commentary Published in the Chronicle of Higher Education
UPP Chair Joseph Viteritti has published a commentary on "How Trump Changed the Way I Teach," in a special symposium issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education (September 22, 2019).
Prof. Matthew Lasner Speaks at “Re: Housing: Detroit” Symposium
Prof. Matthew Lasner spoke at the "Re: Housing: Detroit” symposium hosted by the City of Detroit Planning and Development Department and the University of Michigan’s Taubman College, exploring and evaluating Detroit’s “Missing Middle” housing program. The full symposium can be watched here.
Associate Prof. Laura Wolf-Powers’ Article Published in Metroplitics Journal
Prof Laura Wolf-Powers published an article in Metropolitics journal, “Reclaim Value Capture for Equitable Development”, May 28, 2019.
UPP Chair, Joseph Viteritti, Media Coverage October & Nov 2017
UPP Chair Joseph Viteritti participated in a three-way conversation with Jarrett Murphy, executive editor of City Limits (moderator) and journalist/author Juan Gonzalez, "The de Blasio Authors Weigh In: Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Viteritti on the Mayor's Past and Future." A edited transcript of the conversation has been published simultaneously online in City Limits and the Nation magazines along with complete podcasts [...]