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March 19, 2014 | Comments Off on Pessia – Test
March 18, 2014 | Comments Off on Testing
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March 18, 2014 | Comments Off on Test Podcast
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March 12, 2014 | Comments Off on Test Podcast: Gold on the Ceiling
Stephen Elliott IDC 4001H Sustainable development has long been an abstruse, esoteric concept that has less cohesion than the mud in Sherman Creek. It is a relatively new field of interdisciplinary studies involving principles of economics, an understanding of sociology, theories of urban planning, and a hefty dose of idealism to tie it all together. […]
March 3, 2014 | Comments Off on Sanding the edges of Edgeucation
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I borrowed the phrase for my title from an environmental equality visionary named Majora Carter. Although I was not in class last Tuesday, reading through my fellow students reviews on the New York Restoration Project exhibit and the discussion from guest speaker Constance Haydock, I felt that if the exhibit and the speaker’s missions were to be […]
March 2, 2014 | Comments Off on “Green the Ghetto!”
There’s nothing I love more than a field trip, so I was very, very excited to Museum of the City of NY. I have to admit, I’m a pretty sorry excuse for a New Yorker, knowing next to nothing about the history of New York City. This short film gave a very enjoyable and succinct […]
February 18, 2014 | 1 Comment »
Stephen Elliott IDC 4001H To paraphrase someone much smarter than me, history without context is just a story. It’s easy to crawl through the alcoves and alleyways of New York without giving a moment’s breath to the past you step on. Each cobble, each brick has centuries of stories to tell, and yet we hardly […]
February 17, 2014 | Comments Off on New York City Timescapes: Touching, tepid; too much
Derick Liu IDC4001H MTBH If I were to judge Timescapes as a film, I wouldn’t be able to give it a passing grade. Don’t get me wrong, the information presented in the short is very interesting and eye-opening. The problem is how it was presented. The first, most obvious problem is in regards to the three […]
February 17, 2014 | Comments Off on Timescapes, a Prerecorded Lecture
Timescapes is a concise twenty-two minute film that condenses the history of New York since its founding in 1624. This is an interesting documentary that includes detailed information supported with maps and rare, old photographs of New York.The short film highlights important aspects in the evolution of New York that may be inspirational and touching […]
February 17, 2014 | Comments Off on Timescapes: 390 Years in 22 Minutes
Welcome to Macaulay Seminar 4: Planning the Future of New York City! I’m Gwen, your ITF! Over the course of the semester, I’ll be in class with you, around Macaulay Central for events, and available to answer any questions you might have about your laptop or otherwise. You can reach me at gwendolyn.shaw@macaulay.cuny.edu. I look […]
January 24, 2014 | 1 Comment »