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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.
Read MoreBefore we start, I want you to do a thought experiment. Think about the images you see on news coverage when there is a heat wave in a city (when it is about 95 F/ 35 C for a few days). What immediately comes to mind? Who do you picture?
Read MoreBrian McGrath, an Associate Director of the Tishman Center and Professor of Urban Design at Parsons, recently co-authored a book titled Patch Atlas, which is a new tool for mapping urban land cover that integrates design principles and ecological knowledge for understanding cities as complex, patchy, and dynamic systems. McGrath also co-authored an article in Science for the Sustainable City which presents key findings and insights from over two decades of research, education, and community engagement in the acclaimed Baltimore Ecosystem Study.
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