New York City
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Small, Shared, and Repurposed: Reimagining Housing for 21st-Century New York City
Introduction New York City’s affordable housing crisis is one of the most pressing challenges facing any global city in the 21st century. With median Manhattan rents exceeding $4,000 per month, tens of thousands of single adults living in shelters, and a substantial portion of the city’s housing stock inaccessible to low- and moderate-income residents, the Continue reading
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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