Terreform Center for Advanced Urban Research

03/06/2021

: Associated faculty Helga Tawil-Souri is a contributor to “Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope” (The American University in Cairo Press (AUC Press) 2021) (Terreform Urban Research) Inspired by Gaza's inhabitants, this book builds on the positive capabilities of Gazans. It brings together environmentalists, planners, activists, and scholars from Palestine and Israel, the US, the UK, India, and elsewhere to create hopeful interventions that imagine a better place for Gazans and Palestinians. Open Gaza engages the Gaza Strip within and beyond the logics of siege and warfare, it considers how life can be improved inside the limitations imposed by the Israeli blockade, and outside the idiocy of violence and warfare. Tawil-Souri’s chapter, “Internet Pigeon Network” offers a practical blueprint for a different kind of digital network, and by doing so also highlights questions about inaccessibility, technological development, "smart" and ecologically-friendly cities. Be sure to check it out! bit.ly/2PbVi5E

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05/11/2020

1. The feel of cool marble under bare feet.
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8. The number of people with rent subsidies in New York City
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71. Shakespeare, et cetera.
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109. A distaste for imperialism.
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224. The distance at which you can recognize faces.

1. The feel of cool marble under bare feet. 2. How to live in a small room with five strangers for six months. 3. With the same strangers in a lifeboat for one week. 4. The modulus of rupture. 5. The distance a shout carries in the city. 6. The distan...

04/11/2020

Dear Terreformers,

During this time of social distancing we are working to put our catalogue online as Ebooks.

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10/16/2019

"With its background on the Manhattanville campus and demographic study of Manhattan north of 125th Street, the first half of the book is a strong critique of planning in NYC and an argument for an approach that does not prioritize private development; it also exhibits many of the principles Sorkin espouses at The City College of New York, where I was a student about a dozen years ago." John Hill

Gowntown: A 197-X Plan for Upper Manhattan Terreform UR (Urban Research) , 2016 Paperback | 8 x 11 inches | 180 pages | English | ISBN...

10/14/2019

This World Food Day, October 16, Terreform research director, Andrea Johnson will take part in a round table panel discussion along with Brooklyn Borough President, Eric Adams; and Nicholas Freudenberg, Director of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute and Distinguished Professor of Public Health at

10/10/2019

If you look today at the skyline of downtowns throughout the Middle East, and beyond, the corporation has transformed the urban landscape. The corporation makes itself present through the proliferation of its urban mega-projects, skyscrapers, downtown developments and gated communities, retail malls and artificial islands, airports, ports, and highways. Unlike the state, the joint-stock corporation’s organization of urban space has largely escaped sustained critical scholarly attention. This talk examines the notable recent expansion of joint-stock corporations into the urban fabric of the Middle East.

Rather than analyze how the built environment was utilized to absorb surplus capital, I look to how corporate capitalization draws on future financial revenues through the production of present urban space.

Deen Sharp
at King's College London

"Capitalizing Urbanization in the Middle East”

10/08/2019

Artist Walter Hood, the head of Hood Design Studio in Oakland, California, has been selected as the winner of this year’s Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize in recognition of his ongoing achievements in merging landscape, urbanism, and public art. Established in 1994 through the will of stage and scre...

10/08/2019

Terreform co-director and new Managing Editor of Public Culture, Vyjayanthi Rao, will be presenting at Urban Democracy Lab's Engaged Urbanists Working Group this Monday, October 14. Rao is an anthropologist and writer studying architecture, infrastructure and social life in large cities.  

10/04/2019