Housing & Infrastructure
Focuses on the systems and structures that support urban life. Explores housing, public space, transportation, and civic architecture as essential components of social equity and urban form.
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Accumulation by Dispossession in the Vertical City: A Harveyan Reading of New York
In The New Imperialism (2003) and Rebel Cities (2012), David Harvey reframes urbanization as central—not peripheral—to the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. Extending Marx’s theory of accumulation, Harvey argues that cities function as “spatial fixes” for surplus capital. When profitability falters in primary circuits of production, capital turns toward the built environment: infrastructure, real estate, housing, and large-scale urban redevelopment. Continue reading
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Distribution of Housing Types and Hybrid Mix
Housing Model — Hudson Hotel, 357 West 57th Street, Manhattan The housing model for the former Hudson Hotel reimagines the site as a hybrid residential and civic ecosystem, transforming a single-use hospitality building into a mixed-tenure, mixed-use housing framework that responds to Midtown West’s affordability pressures, transient populations, and service-worker displacement. Housing types are deliberately distributed Continue reading
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Housing Justice
Affordability, Evictions, and Displacement in New York City New York City faces a deepening housing crisis characterized by rising eviction filings, severe overcrowding, and escalating rent burdens. Despite being a city renowned for its density and diversity, access to affordable and secure housing remains elusive for a growing share of its population. This article examines Continue reading
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Selling the Commons. The Systematic Erasure of Section 9 Housing
In a deal cloaked in the language of “revitalization” and “affordability,” the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) has once again put public land on the auction block. This time, it’s the Manhattanville Houses in West Harlem — a public housing campus home to thousands of New Yorkers who have, for decades, weathered systemic neglect, Continue reading