On April 13th I attended the Student Homelessness and Housing Insecurity at New York City Colleges event on the Queens College campus with the guest speaker of Steven Banks, the Commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration. While the first portion of this event was very informative especially considering the statistics that …
Kevin Loughran introduces his article by arguing that “contemporary parks and public spaces are best analyzed on a continuum of privilege” (Loughran 49). He concludes it by saying “the High Line illustrates how issues of privilege, economic growth, and consumption are bound up in the neoliberalization of public spaces” (Loughran 64). While it is important …
Jane Jacobs’ introduction to The Death and Life of Great American Cities briefly touches upon an issue that applies not only to the building of cities but across a wide range of social problems. She speaks of a housing project in East Harlem where the tenants seem to be disproportionately unhappy with a rectangular lawn …
