There is a common misconception that city planning and architecture seek to provide “solutions to end homelessness.” These solutions include various types of supportive,...
The United States is an aging society with growing economic inequality and socio-cultural diversity. Age-associated disadvantages, such as declining health, overlap with unequal access...
The Housing System was a six-program series on pressing issues at the intersection of design, policy, and politics in housing in spring 2019.
Plagued with seemingly...
This day-long conference assesses the current state of housing in North America through a combination of case-studies and expanded thematic discussions among architects, academics,...
A single-day conference exploring policy and design strategies for reinvigorating postwar social housing.
In 2016, the League brought together architects, historians, and activists from three...
In recent decades, debates on slums and the future of urban life have raged. Novelists, filmmakers, academics, cultural institutions, NGOs, foundations, and think tanks...
Saturday, May 10, 2014
East Gallery, Buell Hall
10:00: Welcome Reinhold Martin (Director, Buell Center)
10:10: “The Specter of Democracy: Figuring the Nineteenth-Century Anarchist City” Irene Cheng...
Launched in 2011, this design study considered new types of housing to match New York's contemporary demographics and lifestyles.
New York City has a remarkably...
The video begins with the conclusion of a presentation on the obstacles to low-density housing in Los Angeles by Angela Brooks-Scarpa.
Gary Paige introduces a...
The Dutch government plans to build one million houses by the year 2010. What makes the Dutch situation unique is the employment – and the influence...