Housing Redux
by Nneena Lynch, James von Klemperer, Hana Kassan, Andrei Harwell, inz RappaportEstimated delivery 3-12 business days
Format Paperback
Condition Brand New
Description
The book focuses on ways to reinvent public housing in New York Citythrough a series of design projects from Yale School of Architecture thatintegrate form and provide social programs for the residents.
The concepts focused on restitching the project into the city street grid andsought ways to add new built fabric that would allow the Modernist towers-in-the park project to connect with public streets. Some found ways to keepthe superblock with interventions to support the community at differentscales and family structures. Urban farms and community facilities as well asrecreation spaces were included in order to have a range of interventions forcare, health, and equity that could reorient public housing.