General notes As Prof. Alonso noted in class, the questions and comments that your group received today reflect the gaps in your presentation’s argument . Anticipate the types of questions raised by your group’s problem/concepts/solutions! Define your terms: kairos, public-private, gentrification, etc. Make sure that your reason for the choice of a […]
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I’m writing from an ITF meeting where we’re learning more about Universal Design Learning (UDL), defined as “an approach to the design of all products and environments to be usable by everyone, to the greatest extent possible, regardless of age, ability, or situation.” In essence, the goal of UDL is […]
Link to the NYT article mentioned in class: “That Noise? The Rich Neighbors Digging a Basement Pool in Their $100 Million Brownstone” by David Margolick, NYT (April 5, 2019): Tamar Gongadze, whose third-floor apartment at 51 West 68th Street was directly above the pit, also just fled. Her law firm […]
Discussions about the factors that affect development in New York City tend to cluster around ideas of zoning and demographics and, to a lesser extent, the demand for quality of life factors such as access to transportation, public school systems, and access to essential services. The belief in developers as […]
Class on Tuesday, March 5, will include a workshop about using Social Explorer. To prep for this workshop, last week I asked everyone to read the demo project at my site and check if they had off-campus library access to Social Explorer. In addition, please read this short article at […]
Today’s workshop begins promptly at the beginning of class and to get the most out of it, let’s hit the ground running. Here’s the title slide just to get you PUMPED for seminar in only 40 minutes!
There will be an upcoming special election for the citywide election position of Public Advocate on February 26, 2019. As a result, anyone who isn’t currently registered or wants to change their voter registration by mail needs to do so by Friday, February 1, 2019 and postmarked by February 6, 2019. If you […]
Given our seminar questions – what makes a city? What makes New York, New York? – I wanted to offer students different representations of the city. In addition to the video playlist (New York represented with interviews, the moving image, etc.) below are some more representations of the city. Through […]
