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We’re now LIVE for today’s webinar, the book launch of ‘Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope’. Speakers: * Tareq Baconi, International Crisis Group * Fadi Shayya, U...niversity of Manchester * Helga Tawil-Souri, New York University Chair: * Deen Sharp, LSE

To more and all diverse and challenging ideas about architecture! Terreform Urban Research is honored to be a #GrahamGrantee

Champion. Michael Sorkin. https://www.nytimes.com//us-coronavirus-deaths-100000.html

1. The feel of cool marble under bare feet. ... 8. The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City... ... 71. Shakespeare, et cetera. ... 109. A distaste for imperialism. ... 224. The distance at which you can recognize faces. https://www.readingdesign.org/250-things

Dear Terreformers, During this time of social distancing we are working to put our catalogue online as Ebooks. Please support the continuation of our work by purchasing our books at the link below. ... https://www.urpub.org/e-books

"With its background on the Manhattanville campus and demographic study of Manhattan north of 125th Street, the first half of the book is a strong critique of planning in NYC and an argument for an approach that does not prioritize private development; it also exhibits many of the principles Sorkin espouses at The City College of New York, where I was a student about a dozen years ago." John Hill

Michael Sorkin presented at the soft opening of the Green Living Room in West Woodlawn, Chicago. Located in 6431 S. Cottage Grove Avenue, the Green Living Room is the result of the work and dedication of Naomi Davis, founder of community nonprofit, Blacks In Green,... https://www.terreform.info//michael-sorkin-at-the-green-li

If you look today at the skyline of downtowns throughout the Middle East, and beyond, the corporation has transformed the urban landscape. The corporation makes itself present through the proliferation of its urban mega-projects, skyscrapers, downtown developments and gated communities, retail malls and artificial islands, airports, ports, and highways. Unlike the state, the joint-stock corporation’s organization of urban space has largely escaped sustained critical scholarly... attention. This talk examines the notable recent expansion of joint-stock corporations into the urban fabric of the Middle East. Rather than analyze how the built environment was utilized to absorb surplus capital, I look to how corporate capitalization draws on future financial revenues through the production of present urban space. Deen Sharp at King's College London "Capitalizing Urbanization in the Middle East

back to back congratulations! MacArthur Foundation and Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize to Terreform Center for Advanced Urban Research Advisor Walter Hood https://twitter.com/macfound/status/1177283567719780352 #terreform #urbanresearch

What exactly is this document? To begin, it’s a series of meditations on Manhattanvilleand Upper Manhattanintended to provoke discussion, even action. It has ...been prepared in light of Columbia University’s massive expansion into the neighborhood and the inevitable enormous changes this will bring. This proposal is the work of Terreforma nonprofit, freestanding research center, which as part of its mission formulates unsolicited interventions for vexed urban situations. Gowntown has not been commissioned by anyone, although its preparation has entailed extensive consultation, shares many points of view, and, of course, stands on the shoulders of giants. We are pleased to call to the achievements of Ron Shiffman, who has been New York’s most dedicated community planner for decades and who was instrumental in producing Community Board 9’s fine 197-a plan (encompassing #Manhattanville). We likewise salute the many groups and individuals in the neighborhood whothrough a combination of imagination and resistancehave struggled to secure a happy and equitable future. With these fair efforts in mind, we choose to call this document a 197-x plan to acknowledge that it is not the result of consensus building and to suggest that such unofficial contributions should enjoy the same standing and warrant the same attention as the more official, community-sponsored 197-a and the generally developer-driven 197-c. A truly open planning process must be just that: one in which all contributions are respected. Learn more and download full introduction: urpub.org/books/gowntown Support. Purchase. Share. Ask your #library to carry #URbooks. URBAN RESEARCH (UR), THE IMPRINT OF TERREFORM, PUBLISHES PROGRESSIVE BOOKS ABOUT CITIES AND THEIR FUTURES. #URGowntown #Terreform #TerreformUR #GrahamGrantee #UrbanResearch #nyc #uppermanhattan #michaelsorkin #firstbook #townandgown #urbanplanning #urbandesign #campusdesign #197a #communitydesign #ccny #communitybenefitsagreement #communitydevelopment #columbiauniversity #westsidehighway #architecturerenderings #zoning #harlemwalk #hudsonriver Terreform Center for Advanced Urban Research See more