Street Futures: How Covid-19 Has Changed our Streetscapes

After two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, how has our conception of public space changed? Over the past two years, the citizens of metropolitan cities have minimized the use of vehicles in the streets due to the restrictions for travel and ‘stay home’ mandates. With the absence of traffic jams and parked cars, the citizens of New York occupied the streets in their own way.

Events, Webinar, infrastructureTishman CenterJune 15, 2022earth week, covid-19, Urban design

[Re]-Watch Earth Week 2022 Videos

Thank you to all of our guests, panelists, research assistants and colleagues that helped us have a great slate of events for April and our Earth Month programming. You can re-watch (or watch for the first time) below. We will update a couple of the videos for increased accessibility. We hope you enjoy and share these!

[REBLOG] Two Reflections: Thinking About Blackness, Ecology, and Architecture in the United States

The history of building and space is richer than we usually think. So are the visions of a less racist future, motivated in part by many Black voices and gazes. Reconstruction in America worked briefly in the past, ending not in failure but in its active repression. Reconstructions is a beautiful, evocative, and painful call for us all to nurture the racially regenerative possibility of space and building.

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